MUMBAI, India, June 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517053821 A) filed by Simplifyber, Inc., Raleigh, U.S.A., on June 3, for 'soft goods formed from a fiber liquid slurry having surface features, and methods for making the same.'

Inventor(s) include Intscher-Owrang, Maria; Cohen, Philip; Miller, Joseph; and Jardim, Juliana Marangon.

The application for the patent was published on June 27, under issue no. 26/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention discloses a molded article having a surface feature created by a light reactive agent interacting with light from a light source, and a method for making the same. The article is molded from a slurry comprised of an aqueous solution that includes a plurality of fibers and a light reactive agent. The slurry is molded into a three-dimensional solid fibrous molded part. The solid fibrous molded part is exposed to a light source such that the light reacts with the light reactive agent to create at least one surface feature. The surface feature can be, for example, a texture or a color change."

The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 16, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/080055.

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