ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,178, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to YUPOONG INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cap and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Jung Hwan Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cap is formed of a crown portion formed by connecting a plurality of panels, a brim portion attached to a lower end of the crown portion, and a sweat absorbing portion attached to an inner lower end of the crown portion, and at least two adjacent panels among the plurality of panels are connected to each other by sewing and ultrasonic wave processing."

The patent was filed on April 4, 2023, under Application No. 18/130,486.

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