US Patent Issued to Reebok International on March 31 for "Method for manufacturing knit articles incorporating reflective yarn and knit articles" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,389, issued on March 31, was assigned to Reebok International Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).

"Method for manufacturing knit articles incorporating reflective yarn and knit articles" was invented by Patrick S. O'Sullivan (Weymouth, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a knit article having a reflective yarn. The method includes knitting an article using a first yarn, and knitting a reflective yarn into a first region of the article using a float plaiting stitch. The method further includes cutting the article incorporating the reflective yarn according to a predetermined pattern to form a cut knit article...