US Patent Issued to YKK on Nov. 18 for "Fastener tape, method for identifying same, method for manufacturing same, and slide fastener set" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,681, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to YKK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fastener tape, method for identifying same, method for manufacturing same, and slide fastener set" was invented by Yuichi Miyazaki (Toyama, Japan), Shigeto Takahashi (Toyama, Japan), Hiromi Aoshima (Toyama, Japan) and Hisanori Ogasawara (Toyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fastener tape is woven from a weft thread and warp threads both of which are threads with a main attribute. The fastener tape includes: first and second side-edges extending along an elongation direction of the fastener tape to define a fastener tape width; and a tape main portion interposed betwe...