ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,057, issued on April 15, was assigned to JUKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Sewing machine" was invented by Tatsuya Ogawa (Tokyo), Takahiro Higa (Tokyo), Kuniaki Sato (Tokyo), Hajime Nakayama (Tokyo) and Juan Zhang (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sewing machine includes: a sewing needle, holding an upper thread; an upper thread tension adjustment mechanism, adjusting a tension of the upper thread; a shuttle cooperating with the sewing needle to form a seam; a feed mechanism, in which endless feed belts feeding a sewing object disposed at a sewing position along a first direction are disposed on two sides with respect to the sewing position ...