US 12,295,438 B2
Garments with moisture capture assemblies and associated methods
Lyne Deshaies, Toronto (CA); Talia Greenberg, Toronto (CA); Joanna Griffiths, Toronto (CA); Steven Hudson, Toronto (CA); Jeremy Jiang, Kunshan (CN); Julie Power, Toronto (CA); and Linda Kritikos, Toronto (CA)
Assigned to Knix Wear Inc., Toronto (CA)
Filed by Knix Wear Inc., Toronto (CA)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/972,907.
Application 17/972,907 is a continuation of application No. 17/717,986, filed on Apr. 11, 2022, granted, now 11,497,263.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/273,429, filed on Oct. 29, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/219,763, filed on Jul. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0128088 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. A41D 31/12 (2019.01)
CPC A41D 31/125 (2019.02) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of manufacturing a garment configured to be worn by a wearer and to be washed and re-worn numerous times, the method comprising:
bonding, with a plurality of adhesive bonds within a bonded region of the garment, a moisture capture assembly to a garment base;
wherein the garment base defines a garment lateral edge of the garment; and
wherein the moisture capture assembly has a perimeter, an assembly interior side that faces the wearer when the garment is worn by the wearer, and an assembly exterior side that faces away from the wearer when the garment is worn by the wearer, and wherein the moisture capture assembly comprises at least:
a moisture retention portion configured to absorb and retain moisture from the wearer; and
an anti-leak portion configured to restrict moisture from exiting the moisture retention portion and positioned toward the assembly exterior side of the moisture capture assembly relative to the moisture retention portion;
wherein the bonding results in the bonded region extending fully around the perimeter of the moisture capture assembly such that one or more adhesive bonds of the plurality of adhesive bonds are present throughout an entirety of the bonded region; and
wherein the bonding results in the moisture capture assembly and the bonded region not extending to the garment lateral edge.