US Patent Issued to YKK on Feb. 4 for "Clip for upholstery cover" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,702, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to YKK Corp. (Japan).

"Clip for upholstery cover" was invented by Mariano Cuerda (Novi, Mich.), Tsutomu Yamada (Novi, Mich.), Tetsuya Yoshino (Tokyo) and Thanh Nguyen (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clip for securing a cover to a base includes a chuck defining a suspender retention cavity, the suspender retention cavity sized and configured to receive a suspender attached to the cover; a first leg extending from the chuck and including a first barb, the first barb extending outwardly with respect to a centerline axis of the clip; and a second leg extending from the chuck and including ...