US Patent Issued to VANDEWIELE on Feb. 10 for "Method of forming a patterned carpet in a tufting machine" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,041, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to VANDEWIELE NV (Kortrijk, Belgium).

"Method of forming a patterned carpet in a tufting machine" was invented by Frank Marijsse (Kortrijk, Belgium) and Kristof Oosterlijnck (Ooigem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a patterned carpet in a tufting machine with a sliding needle bar (4) comprising a plurality of needles (5). The method comprising analysing desired pattern data to determine if a problem condition is present for a particular arrangement of tufts in the desired pattern data based on the relative location of at least two stitches in the desired pattern data. Ch...