ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,428, issued on May 13, was assigned to Seung-Oug Choi (Gwangju, South Korea).
"Structure provided with concealed modules for preventing separation of socks" was invented by Seung-Oug Choi (Gwangju, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure includes female and male snap buttons are supported so as to be covered by left and right concealed modules fixed to one side of two socks, respectively. Thus, when the socks are not being worn, the female and male snap buttons can be exposed by an opening operation of the concealed modules to correspondingly couple the two socks to each other so that the two socks form a pair when was...