ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,666, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ONDO Inc. (New York).
"Blank formed of fabric for manufacturing no-show socks, no-show socks formed of blank and manufacturing method of no-show socks" was invented by Tonghyun Shim (New York) and Donghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a no-show sock manufactured by using a fabric, the no-show sock including a bottom portion 10 configured to define a bottom of the no-show sock made by a series of fabrics connected integrally, a front portion 12 configured to cover toes and a front foot top, and first and second lateral portions 14 and 16 configured to surro...