ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,968, issued on July 1, was assigned to IZAWA TOWEL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Towel cloth and method of producing the same" was invented by Shoji Izawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided a towel cloth for which gluing is unnecessary during weaving and a method of producing the same. The towel cloth includes warp pile yarns, warp ground yarns, and weft ground yarns. The warp pile yarns are core-sheath conjugate spun yarns or bundled spun yarns. The core component fibers are polyester multifilament yarns. The sheath component fibers are cotton fibers. The sheath component fibers include untwisted fibers and wrapped fibers ...