US Patent Issued to JUKI on July 14 for "Sewing machine presser foot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,207, issued on July 14, was assigned to JUKI Corp. (Tama, Japan).

"Sewing machine presser foot" was invented by Honoka Iimura (Tokyo), Norio Yanagisawa (Tokyo), Eiji Fukumori (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Hanada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sewing machine presser foot being attached to a presser foot bar provided near a needle bar via a presser foot support member in a sewing machine, the sewing machine including a throat plate and a needle bar up-down movement mechanism configured to cause an up-down movement of the needle bar holding a sewing needle. The sewing machine presser foot includes: a first presser foot and a second pres...