US Patent Issued to YKK on Dec. 16 for "Cover material attachment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,946, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to YKK Corp. (Japan).

"Cover material attachment" was invented by Madoka Nanbu (Kurobe, Japan), Takayoshi Tanaka (Kurobe, Japan), Wanli Zhang (Kurobe, Japan) and Tsuyoshi Minato (Kurobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cover material attachment includes: a base to be installed in a groove of a cushion material; a first support and a second support that are provided upright on the base toward an opening of the groove, and are opposed to each other in a width direction of the groove; a first protrusion and a second protrusion that respectively protrude from the first and second supports in re...