US Patent Issued to KURARAY FASTENING on Sept. 29 for "Polyethylene terephthalate-based hook-and-loop fastener and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,524, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to KURARAY FASTENING Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Polyethylene terephthalate-based hook-and-loop fastener and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Makoto Sagara (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polyethylene terephthalate-based woven hook-and-loop fastener which contains, as a woven base fabric, a fabric having a multifilament yarn made of polyethylene terephthalate as a warp yarn and a polyester-based heat-fusible multifilament yarn as a weft yarn, in which a monofilament yarn made of polyethylene terephthalate is woven in parallel with the warp yarn into the woven base fabr...