ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,214, issued on June 2, was assigned to Tajima Industries Ltd. (Kasugai, Japan).
"Method for producing smart textiles" was invented by Akihiko Fushimi (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a smart textile includes stitching with a conductive thread from a first point outside a segmented area that is set on a sheet material toward a second point on the segmented area. An embroidery with the conductive thread is sewn from the second point as a starting point to apply a segment in the segmented area. These series of steps are executed without performing a process for cutting the conductive thread by stopping ...