ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,621, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to KURARAY FASTENING Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Polyester-based woven hook-and-loop fastener and production method therefor" was invented by Makoto Sagara (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polyester-based woven hook-and-loop fastener including: a woven-fabric and engaging elements, in which the woven-fabric in which a polyethylene terephthalate-based multifilament yarn is a warp yarn and a polyester-based heat-fusible multifilament yarn is a weft yarn is a woven base fabric, a yarn for the engaging elements made of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a polyethylen...