ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,719, issued on May 27, was assigned to GROZ-BECKERT KG (Albstadt, Germany).
"Knitting tool" was invented by Jorg Sauter (Albstadt, Germany) and Roland Simmendinger (Albstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In recent years, development in the field of knitting tools has seen a focus on the reduction of friction and wear. A knitting tool (1) and a knitting device (27) as described herein are better able to reduce friction in knitting machines and the accumulation of dirt (23) than conventional knitting tools. For this purpose, a functional portion (5) of the knitting tool (1) has subsections (7) in which the absolute value of t...