ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,627, issued on March 17.
"Hair-braid lace with a one-strand method" was invented by Heejae Wang (Sandy Springs, Ga.) and Hoyon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for hair-braiding that includes making a lace closure is described. The one-stranded method includes making a lace closure with synthetic hair, parting locks of the synthetic hair from the lace closure into sections of hairs, pulling a loop of a crochet over a hook, attaching the sections of hairs to the hook, pulling the hook with the attached sections of hairs through the loop of the crochet, wrapping the sections of hairs around the crochet, ...