US Patent Issued to SANTONI on Jan. 27 for "Process for manufacturing a textile item by means of a circular weft knitting machine, and textile item realized by means of this process" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,831, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SANTONI S.P.A. (Brescia, Italy).

"Process for manufacturing a textile item by means of a circular weft knitting machine, and textile item realized by means of this process" was invented by Andrea Lonati (Brescia, Italy) and Lionello Spada (Brescia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for manufacturing a textile item by means of a circular weft knitting machine, of seamless type and provided at least with a feed, a needle-bearing organ supporting a plurality of needles, and a plurality of knockover sinkers provides the programming of the knitting machine so as to define a textile item...