ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,441, issued on June 17, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Sewing machine" was invented by Kunihiro Ito (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of a sewing machine acquires sewing data for forming a utility pattern continuously in a first direction, acquires a condition for sewing a tapering pattern including a tapering portion, generates a projection image representing the tapering pattern based on the sewing data and the condition, controls a needle bar, a feed dog, and an actuator in accordance with the sewing data to sew the utility pattern continuously in the first direction, after starting s...