ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,178, issued on May 5, was assigned to MOVINT (Roeselare, Belgium).
"Weaving machine and method for manufacturing pile fabrics with knotted pile yarns" was invented by Francois T'Sas (Kaliningrad, Russia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a weaving machine for weaving pile fabrics with knotted pile yarns, configured so that, for sequences (I), (II), (III) of two warp yarn systems, the order of the warp yarn systems in the weft insertion mechanism (X) is changed and a pile yarn (P1)-(P4) is brought between the warp yarn systems, at least one warp yarn (1) of the first warp yarn system and at least one warp yarn (2) of the second...