US Patent Issued to ZUIKO on June 2 for "Composite stretchable member and wearable article using same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,710, issued on June 2, was assigned to ZUIKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Composite stretchable member and wearable article using same" was invented by Takahito Manabe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a composite stretchable member and wearing article capable of improving design properties at the time of contraction. A composite stretchable member stretchable in a specific direction includes two sheets facing each other, and a plurality of elastic members extending along the specific direction and being stretchable in the specific direction between the sheets. The sheets are bonded to each other at first bonding sec...