ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,327, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Velcro IP Holdings LLC (Manchester, N.H.).
"Knit fastener loop products" was invented by Paul R. Erickson (New Boston, N.H.), Sihan Wang (Manchester, N.H.), Dale E. Turcotte (New Boston, N.H.) and Okan Ala (Amherst, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a loop fastener product features knitting, such as by circular knitting, a pile yarn and one or more ground yarns to form a stretchable knit fabric having loops of the pile yarn extending from a knit ground, with the ground yarns including polymers of differing melt temperatures. The knit fabric is then held in a desired state whi...