ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,677, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Singer Sourcing Ltd. LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for guiding a sewing operation of a sewing machine" was invented by Barbara Brindzik (Jonkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method, for guiding a sewing operation for a sewing machine, are provided herein. One of one or more stitch objects having stitch data associated therewith may be selected. Each of the one or more stitch objects are defined by a geometric pattern. The stitch data of the one of the one or more stitch objects is analyzed to identify one or more lines forming the geometric ...