ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,644, issued on July 15, was assigned to Global Apparel Partners Inc. (Malibu, Calif.).

"Methods for updating knitting instructions based on physical measurement of knitted article" was invented by William Samosir (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Lawrence Panozzo (San Antonio) and Garrett Li Gerson (Malibu, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for updating knitting instructions begins by defining virtual reference indicators on a surface of a three-dimensional (3D) model of an article to be knitted by a knitting machine, the virtual reference indicators partitioning the surface of the 3D model into one or more regions. Then, knitting instr...