US Patent Issued to IZAWA TOWEL on Sept. 22 for "Pile yarn for towel cloth, manufacturing method thereof, towel cloth, and manufacturing method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,265, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to IZAWA TOWEL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Pile yarn for towel cloth, manufacturing method thereof, towel cloth, and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Shoji Izawa (Tokyo) and Ayaka Sekitani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A warp pile yarn 14 to be used for a towel cloth including a pile yarn, a warp ground yarn, and a weft ground yarn is a sheath-core spun yarn 10 in which a core fiber is twisted in one direction, while a sheath fiber is arranged parallel to a yarn axis. The sheath-core spun yarn 10 is twisted together with a water-soluble fiber yarn 13, and a direction in which the wat...