ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,056, issued on April 15, was assigned to JANOME Corp. (Tokyo).

"Coordinate data generator, sewing machine, and program" was invented by Minami Tsuchiya (Tokyo) and Hiromi Oda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coordinate data generator comprises a coordinate data storage to store a coordinate data of needle positions; and a post-addition coordinate data generation section to add independent values to a X coordinate value or a Y coordinate value of the coordinate data for each item of the coordinate data stored in the coordinate data storage, so as to generate new coordinate data."

The patent was filed on Oct. 25, 2023, under App...