Patents

International Fashion Machines, Inc. E-Textiles are now patented and patent pending - United States Patent No. US 7,054,133 B2

IFM's patent 7,054,133 provides broad coverage of any e-textile lighting capacitive touch controller. This includes lamps, wall mounted dimmers and any other capacitive e-textile method for controlling lighting- including night-lights and wireless light controls that use an e-textile connected to a sensing circuit. IFM's patent provides broad coverage of an electronic textile controller "pompom" which can be used to control toys or any electronic device. IFM's strong patent applications support this broad patent with additional coverage. These additional applications will cover all fuzzy sensors, lofted, and piled novelty yarns and e-textile kits that enable the crafting of electronic textile devices.