ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,271, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VIOLETTA Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Mesh warp knitted fabric and textile product" was invented by Kenji Uehara (Osaka, Japan) and Miyako Marumo (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A warp knitted fabric is a mesh warp knitted fabric knitted with non-elastic yarns and elastic yarns and at least partially including a mesh texture. In the mesh texture, a plurality of non-elastic yarns are knitted in conformance to a pair of repeating patterns opposed to each other, and a plurality of elastic yarns are knitted in conformance to the pair of repeating patterns to be overlapped on the plurali...