ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,993, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to ZUIKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Method for producing cuffs for wearable article" was invented by Toyoshi Umebayashi (Osaka, Japan) and Hideki Fujita (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present cuff manufacturing method includes: a step of sandwiching at least two continuous elastic members F between a first sheet and a second sheet; a step of thermally-bonding together the first sheet and the second sheet intermittently in the longitudinal direction to form thermally-bonded portions, thereby fixing the continuous elastic members, thus forming a laminate; a slit step of slitting the la...