Illuminated garment
AssigneeBiothread LLC
InventorsLawrence A. Blaustein, Jay Tapper, Jaleh Factor, Boris Kontorovich, Jens Johnson, Daniel Shuter
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Abstract
An illuminated garment includes a base layer having knitted looped threads that hold in position a plurality of optical fibers. The optical fibers are laid into the base layer during the same knitting cycle as the base layer and are configured to emit light through the respective sides of the optical fibers and along the length of each optical fiber in response to receiving light from a light source through at least one end of the respective optical fibers.
Claims32
An illuminated garment comprising a base layer having knitted looped threads that hold in position a plurality of optical fibers, which are laid into the base layer during the same knitting cycle as the base layer and are configured to emit light through the respective sides and along the length of each optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers in response to receiving light from a light source through at least one end of the respective optical fibers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.