US Patent Issued to YKK on April 7 for "Sewing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,604, issued on April 7, was assigned to YKK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sewing device" was invented by Toshiaki Sawada (Toyama, Japan), Takayoshi Tanaka (Toyama, Japan), Hitomi Nishida (Toyama, Japan), Harumi Takagishi (Toyama, Japan), Takafumi Oba (Toyama, Japan), Takuma Kawato (Toyama, Japan) and Norihiro Takagi (Toyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sewing device includes: a fly base on which a fly is to be placed; a fastener base on which a fastener is to be placed; a first conveying device configured to convey the fly on the fly base; a first sewing machine configured to perform edge overcasting on the fly during conveyance by the ...