ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,900, issued on June 30, was assigned to Xiamen Hexin Technology Co. Ltd. (Xiamen, China).

"Skin-friendly fish scale protein modified nylon-spandex fabric and its processing technology" was invented by Zhennan Xu (Xiamen, China) and Huawen Tang (Zhongshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a skin-friendly fish scale protein modified nylon-spandex fabric and its processing technology. The fabric is made of fish scale protein nylon DTY and spandex by weft knitting. The spinning process of the fish scale protein nylon DTY includes the steps of: sequentially carrying out spinning, cooling, oiling and winding on...