ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,600, issued on April 7, was assigned to KARL MAYER STOLL R&D GMBH (Obertshausen, Germany).

"Method of knitting warp knitted fabric and warp knitting machine" was invented by Minoru Ota (Fukui, Japan), Kazuhiro Ozawa (Fukui, Japan), Tomokazu Igarashi (Fukui, Japan) and Rieko Kitagawa (Fukui, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A double raschel warp knitting machine including: a pair of frontside jacquard bars JB2, 3 and a pair of backside jacquard bars JB4, 5 as jacquard bars, in which each of the frontside jacquard bars JB2, 3 and the backside jacquard bars JB4, 5 is a half-gauge jacquard bar; and at least one frontside ground guide...