ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,694, issued on March 25, was assigned to JUKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Sewing machine" was invented by Tatsuya Ogawa (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 that suppresses sewing defects is provided. The sewing machine includes: a sewing needing, held by a needle bar and moving back and forth while holding an upper thread: a shuttle, configured to hold a bobbin which is housed in a bobbin case and around which a lower thread is wound, and cooperating with the sewing needle to form a seam; a presser foot member, configured to press a to-be-sewn article at a ...