ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,645, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ZUIKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method and device for manufacturing wearable article" was invented by Takashi Arima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method for a wearing item repeatedly executes: a step of, at a preceding pad, receiving and holding a distal end part of a continuous body to convey; a step of, at a following pad, catching up with the preceding pad; a both holding step of, at both of the preceding pad and the following pad, holding the continuous body; and a cutting step of cutting the distal end part of the continuous body to generate an individual workpi...