ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,875, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to JUKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Sewing machine external unit" was invented by Takeshi Asami (Tokyo), Yoshiaki Abe (Tokyo), Masaru Yamada (Tokyo), Eiichi Karasawa (Tokyo), Toshiaki Sakaeda (Tokyo), Takashi Shibuya (Tokyo), Honoka Iimura (Tokyo) and Naofumi Fukuba (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sewing machine external unit includes: a holder holding fabric; a driver being detachable from a bed of a sewing machine and driving the holder along an upper surface of the bed; a pressing member moving in an up-down direction according to movement of a sewing needle in the up-down direction, pressing the f...