ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,332, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Juki Corp. (Tokyo).

"Operation information obtaining device and operation information obtaining method" was invented by Kazuyuki Ishihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application effectively utilizes the operation information of a sewing machine. The operation information obtaining device includes: a storage portion, configured to store pattern information associating detection information and a sewing pattern of a sewing machine, where the detection information is configured to identify an action of a sewing needle of the sewing machine, and the sewing pattern corresponds to...