US Patent Issued to YKK on July 7 for "Clip member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,479, issued on July 7, was assigned to YKK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Clip member" was invented by Yuya Takahashi (Tokyo), Takefumi Adachi (Tokyo), Yasunari Sogabe (Tokyo) and Zhiyu Ren (Kurobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clip member includes a hook engageable with a peripheral portion and a fixing portion configured to penetrate through an adherend to fix the adherend. The hook includes a base piece, an end piece provided at a first side with respect to the base piece; and a connecting piece connecting the base piece and the end piece. The fixing portion includes a base end continuous with the base piece and protrudes toward a secon...