ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,698, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ZUIKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for producing wearable article" was invented by Toyoshi Umebayashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a wearing article includes: a step of producing a waist member including a waist body and male fasteners; a step of joining an absorber to the waist body; and a step of engaging the male fastener and a female fastener of the absorber with each other by folding the absorber in two in an orthogonal direction, then folding, in a width direction, both side portions of the waist member, in which the step of producing the absorber i...