ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,717, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to JUKI Corp. (Tama, Japan) and ARTNATURE INC. (Tokyo).
"Hair planting apparatus" was invented by Honoka Iimura (Tama, Japan), Jiro Obama (Tama, Japan), Masaki Sasaki (Tama, Japan), Shogo Kamada (Tama, Japan) and Naoki Kurita (Tama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hair planting apparatus includes a mounting portion for mounting a base material, and including a work opening for planting, a hair planting unit for binding hair for planting to the material in the work opening, a transport mechanism for positioning the hair planting unit relative to each mesh hole of the material mounted on the...