ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,889, issued on July 1, was assigned to Mast Industries (Far East) Ltd. (Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong).
"Garment with accessible magnetic closure" was invented by Suet Hing Yip (Festival, Hong Kong), Chi Wing Leslie Lin (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Kristen Malarky (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Allison Mendoza (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic hook-type closure for a garment has male and female coupling elements and first and second magnets having a first and a second polarity, respectively. The male coupling element includes the first magnet and a hook having a sloped arm and the female coupling element has the second magnet and a re...