ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,392, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to HAIRPIA TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd. (Jeonju-si, South Korea).

"Wig manufacturing apparatus and method, and wig manufactured using the same" was invented by Ho Yon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a wig manufacturing method. The wig manufacturing method includes dividing a planting net, into which a wig fiber is planted, into a plurality of areas to be designed in a certain pattern, by using a computer device, inputting a planting process using a plurality of needles of a wig manufacturing apparatus according to a pattern shape of each divided net, manufacturing, by the...