US Patent Issued to William Prym on April 22 for "Knitting needle in particular for producing knitwear with cable patterns, and method for producing the knitting needle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,420, issued on April 22, was assigned to William Prym GmbH & Co. KG (Stolberg, Germany).

"Knitting needle in particular for producing knitwear with cable patterns, and method for producing the knitting needle" was invented by Andreas Papenfuss (Weimar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a knitting needle, in particular for producing knitwear with cable patterns, having at least one rigid needle tip and a shank on which the knitwear can be arranged at least regionally. The invention now proposes that the shank consist at least regionally of a material that is reversibly plastically deformable by bending in ...