ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,399, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to YKK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Clip, cover-member attachment tool, and clip assembly" was invented by Takefumi Adachi (Tokyo) and Yusuke Nakagawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clip includes a first guide and a second guide each configured to guide an engagement portion of a suspender to a gap formed therebetween, at least one of the first guide or the second guide being engageable with the engagement portion inserted through the gap, and a connecting portion connecting the first guide and the second guide to each other. The first guide and the second guide are each placed on a bottom surface of ...