US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on June 2 for "Sewing machine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,212, issued on June 2, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Sewing machine" was invented by Hidenori Oka (Tokai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sewing machine includes a projector configured to project a projection image onto a projection area above a bed. The projector is arranged on a portion of an arm and includes a first lens, and a light source emitting light guided to the first lens. When a direction orthogonal to the extending direction and the up-down direction and toward a presser bar from a needle bar is defined as a forward feed direction, and a direction opposite the forward feed direction is define...