US Patent Issued to TISM on April 29 for "Needle plate construction for sewing machine and sewing machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,737, issued on April 29, was assigned to TISM Co. LTD. (Kasugai, Japan).

"Needle plate construction for sewing machine and sewing machine" was invented by Shinko Egami (Kasugai, Japan), Takahiro Yoshida (Kasugai, Japan) and Tatsuya Yamashita (Kasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A needle plate has a needle hole and a guide hole communicating with the needle hole. The guide hole is located near a front side of a sewing machine and positionally deviated from an up-down movement trajectory of a sewing needle in a rotating direction of a rotary hook. The needle plate has a groove formed in front of the needle hole and extending f...