ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,190, issued on March 4.
"Guides for long-arm quilting machines" was invented by Allan A Anderson (Millville, Del.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge device for guiding movement of a sew head relative to a stationary rail, in at least one embodiment, includes an edge guide mount and an edge guide pivotally connected to the guide mount. The guide mount has a rigid housing a mounting clamp carried by the rigid housing for mounting the guide device to the stationary rail. The mounting clamp includes a pivoting clamping element persistently biased into a locking position. The edge guide has at least one linear or curved edge for guidi...