ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,714, issued on March 17, was assigned to Janome Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sewing data creation device, program, and sewing machine" was invented by Takeshi Kongo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sewing data creation device includes: a display control unit that causes a touch panel display to display an edit screen including a rendering region for displaying multiple needle drop points forming sewing data; a needle drop point identifying unit that identifies a user-selected needle drop point as a target needle drop point; a touch detecting unit that detects contact of an instructing member with a position in the edit screen other than t...