# US 12,760,451 B2 · Fabric and garments made of such fabric > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,760,451 B2 - Document ID: US12760451B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/558,007 - Filed: 2022-05-13 - Published: 2024-06-06 - Granted: 2026-10-13 - Earliest claimed: 2021-05-13 - Assignees: Lululemon Athletica Canada Inc. - Applicants: Lululemon Athletica Canada Inc. - Inventors: Yogendra V Dandapure; Rovin Manna - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12760451B2 ## CPC - D03D 15/47: multicomponent, e.g. blended yarns or threads (multicomponent fibres or filaments D03D15/292) - D02G 1/165: {characterised by the use of certain filaments or yarns} - D02G 3/045: {all components being made from artificial or synthetic material} - D02G 3/36: Cored or coated yarns or threads ({D02G3/34, D02G3/40 take precedence}; elastic yarns or threads D02G3/32) - D02G 3/44: Yarns or threads characterised by the purpose for which they are designed {(protective gloves A41D19/00; protective clothing A62B17/00; ropes D07B1/02)} - D03D 1/00: Woven fabrics designed to make specified articles - D03D 15/49: textured (chenille D03D27/18); curled; crimped - D03D 15/50: characterised by the properties of the yarns or threads - D10B 2331/04: polyesters, e.g. polyethylene terephthalate [PET] - D10B 2401/06: Load-responsive characteristics - D10B 2403/0114: with one or more yarns appearing predominantly on one face, e.g. plated or paralleled yarns (for pile fabrics D03D27/00, D04B1/02, D04B21/02; for intarsia fabrics D04B1/126) - D10B 2501/00: Wearing apparel - D03D: WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS - D02G: CRIMPING OR CURLING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS, OR YARNS; YARNS OR THREADS - D10B: INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES ## Abstract It is provided a fabric comprises a yarn that is bi-component yarn air texturized with a mechanical stretched synthetic polymer yarn and a high moisture regain yarn with greater fiber weight per filament than the bi-component yarn. The weft yarns are interwoven with the warp yarns such that the woven fabric defines a face side and a back side opposite to the face side. The high moisture regain yarn is inserted such that it generates plurality of long high moisture regain yarn floats such that a majority of the long high moisture regain yarn floats are on the back side of the woven fabric. The high moisture regain yarn can be inserted in weft or in warp direction or can alternate or at different intervals such that the longer floats are on the backside for more exposure to the skin. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A woven fabric comprising a face side and a back side, said woven fabric comprising: warp yarns interwoven with weft yarns; the warp yarns including; a warp combination yarn comprising a bi-component core yarn and a texturized multifilament feed yarn texturized with or twisted with the bi-component core yarn; the weft yarns including: a first weft multifilament yarn; and a second weft multifilament yarn comprising regenerated cellulosic filaments or synthetic polymer filaments, wherein a denier per filament of the second weft multifilament yarn is greater than a denier per filament of the warp combination yarn; wherein the woven fabric includes weft insertions of the first weft yarn and weft insertions of the second weft yarn, the weft insertions of the second weft yarn form a plurality of weft yarn floats every second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth weft insertion; wherein a majority of the weft yarn floats are on the back side of the woven fabric, the weft yarn floats on the back side of the woven fabric act to remove moisture from the back side of the woven fabric and out of the face side of the woven fabric; and wherein the face side of the woven fabric is configured to face away from a wearer and the back side of the woven fabric is configured to be closer to the wearer. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein a polymer of the bi-component core yarn of the warp combination yarn comprises a polyester, a polyacrylic, a Polytrimethylene terephthalate, a nylon, a polypropylene, an acrylic or any blend or combination thereof. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein a polymer of the bi-component core yarn comprises a recycled polyester. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein a polymer of the bi-component core yarn of the warp combination yarn comprises about 10-80% of the bio polymer. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein the first weft multifilament yarn is the same yarn as the texturized multifilament feed yarn of the warp combination yarn. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein the texturized multifilament feed yarn is a bi component yarn. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein the texturized multifilament feed yarn of the warp yarn combination yarn comprises a blend of a bio polymer with a synthetic polymer. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein the warp combination yarn has a denier per filament in a range of 0.35-0.99. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein the bi-component core yarn of the warp combination yarn is an 85 denier/106 filament bi-component polyester. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The woven fabric of claim 9, wherein the woven fabric comprises insertions of the second weft multifilament yarn in every other insertion. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein 60% of the plurality of weft yarn floats are on the back side of the woven fabric and 40% of the plurality of weft yarn floats are on the face side of the woven fabric. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein 90% of the plurality of weft yarn floats are on the back side of the woven fabric and 10% of the plurality of weft yarn floats are on the face side of the woven fabric. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein the warp combination yarn is dyed; or wherein the woven fabric is dyed. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein the denier per filament of the second weft yarn ranges from 0.5 to 2.5. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein the second weft yarn is the multifilament yarn including the nylon filaments and has a yarn size ranging from 20 denier to 120 denier. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein the texturized multifilament feed yarn is a 50D/34F bi-component yarn. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein the bi-component core yarn is a recycled polyester 30D/72F bi-component drawn textured yarn. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The woven fabric of claim 1, wherein the second weft yarn is the multifilament yarn including the nylon filaments and is a 100 denier/72 filament nylon yarn with a denier per filament of about 1.4. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) An article of apparel comprising the woven fabric of claim 1.