US Patent Issued to Twin on Sept. 29 for "Towel woven fabric" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,523, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Twin Co. Ltd. (Imabari Ehime, Japan).

"Towel woven fabric" was invented by Takaya Kaki (Imabari, Japan) and Tadayuki Okuda (Nishitokyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A towel product includes a gauze layer and a pile layer. The gauze layer includes multiple-wound yarns serving as warp yarn and weft yarn, the multiple-wound yarns each including cotton yarn and regenerated cellulose yarn manufactured without causing substitution of hydroxy groups that are twisted together. The pile layer includes pile disposed on at least an exterior surface. The pile layer woven from cotton yarn. The gau...