US Patent Issued to GROZ-BECKERT, SANTONI S.P.A on Feb. 17 for "Knitting system and needle for knitting machines" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,162, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GROZ-BECKERT KG (Albstadt, Germany) and SANTONI S.P.A (Brescia, Italy).

"Knitting system and needle for knitting machines" was invented by Martin Wornle (Mossingen, Germany) and Markus Settegast (Geislingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knitting system 18 and a needle 1, which show greater stability and consume less power during the knitting process, include a bending portion 9 in which at least one recess 11 is arranged at at least one lateral surface 23 of the needle 1 and/or is formed in such a manner that a shaft offset S exists, in a peripheral direction U, between a working po...