ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,291, issued on May 19, was assigned to ZUIKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Wearable article production method, wearable article, and wearable article production device" was invented by Kazuyoshi Hesaka (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable article production method for a stretchable sheet having partially weakened stretchability includes a welding step of ultrasonically welding two sheet bodies and an elastic film to each other at plural joints separated from each other in a predetermined transport direction in a region including a predetermined attachment location by transporting a sheet laminate formed by sandwiching the ...