ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,191, issued on March 4, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Sewing machine" was invented by Hidenori Oka (Tokai, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Iida (Gifu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a sewing machine, an arm includes, on one side thereof in a first direction, a head. A needle bar is disposed at the head to reciprocally move in a second direction. A feed mechanism feeds a workpiece from one side toward the other side of the head in a third direction. The projection unit disposed at the head projects a projection image toward a bed. The projection unit includes an emitter for projecting image light of the projection...