ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,666, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to UCHINO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Pile fabric" was invented by Nobuyuki Uchino (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a pile fabric that can provide both a soft touch feel and durability (pile retention and/or suppression of pile loss). The pile fabric is provided with a base structure formed from a warp and weft and a loop pile formed from pile yarn. The pile yarn is twisted yarn with a twist factor of 2.0 or greater. When the pile yarn is untwisted yarn or weakly twisted yarn, insoluble yarn prior to water soluble yarn elimination is twisted yarn with a twist factor of 2.0 or greater. The ...