ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,650, issued on May 5, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Yarn path guide mechanism and textile machine" was invented by Motohiro Tanigawa (Kyoto, Japan), Masatsugu Goyude (Kyoto, Japan), Toshihiro Matsui (Kyoto, Japan), Hirotaka Wada (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshihiro Kino (Kyoto, Japan), Hidehiro Takeoka (Kyoto, Japan), Yasuhiro Sakanashi (Kyoto, Japan), Dai Shimizube (Kyoto, Japan), Daigoro Nakamura (Kyoto, Japan) and Yoshinori Miura (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is possible to suppress damage to a yarn path guide mechanism and a textile machine. There is a first s...