Patent 7976924 was granted and assigned to Raytheon on July, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An adaptable garment material and method of producing such a material. The material may have a substrate and a plurality of shape memory polymer elements integrated therewith, or may be a mat of interwoven shape memory polymer elements. The shape memory elements adapt in the presence of an actuation trigger and exhibit different properties upon actuation.