US Patent Issued to YKK on June 24 for "Fastener stringer and method for manufacturing fastener stringer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,602, issued on June 24, was assigned to YKK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fastener stringer and method for manufacturing fastener stringer" was invented by Yoshito Ikeguchi (Kurobe, Japan), Masaki Meiwa (Kurobe, Japan), Yukako Nakamura (Kurobe, Japan) and Hayato Iwamura (Kurobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastener stringer for a concealed slide fastener in which a knitted fastener tape has a tape main body portion and a doubled-tape portion that is formed by extending in a width direction from the tape main body portion and being folded back, wherein at least a chain stitch yarn is included in each wale forming the tape main body porti...