ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,720, issued on May 27, was assigned to DELTA GALIL INDUSTRIES LTD. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Automated knitting system and method" was invented by Yoav Sterman (Ein Carmel, Israel) and Eli Almog (Zurit, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knitting system includes a seamless circular knitting machine. It has a circular set of needles having a particular number of needles (M), in the range of 500 to 2,500 needles, arranged in a circular pattern; and a knit controller to selectively operate each one of the needles on a needle-by-needle basis. The system includes a digital computational design tool, to receive a bitmap image, having a pix...