US Patent Issued to YKK on Oct. 6 for "Slider for a slide fastener" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,525, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to YKK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Slider for a slide fastener" was invented by Yuki Chayahara (Kurobe, Japan) and Koji Yamagishi (Kurobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slider according includes a slider body, a pull, and a cover body and is characterized in that an upper blade of the slider body includes a reference surface, a clearance recess having a shape recessed with respect to the reference surface, and a projection projecting from the reference surface, the reference surface and the clearance recess are disposed in each of left and right side regions, the clearance recess is disposed to include...