ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,676, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to JUKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Sewing machine external unit" was invented by Takeshi Asami (Tokyo), Yoshiaki Abe (Tokyo), Masaru Yamada (Tokyo), Eiichi Karasawa (Tokyo), Toshiaki Sakaeda (Tokyo), Takashi Shibuya (Tokyo), Honoka Iimura (Tokyo) and Naofumi Fukuba (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure improves the quality of seams in sewing using a sewing machine, and includes: a holder holding fabric; a driver being detachable from a bed of a sewing machine and driving the holder along an upper surface of the bed; a position detector detecting a position of a sewing needle of the sewing mach...