ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,527, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Singer Sourcing Ltd. LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Sewing machine and methods of using the same" was invented by Laura Kvarnstrand (Habo, Sweden), Mattias Nilsson (Ingatorp, Sweden) and Adam Theander (Bankeryd, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary sewing machine includes a sewing head, a needle bar holding a needle, a motor for moving the needle during a sewing operation, a user interface, a data gathering device, a data storage device, and a processor. The data gathering device gathers data related to at least one of the sewing machine, an environment surrounding the sewing machine,...