ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,580, issued on June 24, was assigned to ZUIKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Apparatus and method for manufacturing laminate" was invented by Hideki Fujita (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for manufacturing a layered material including an elastic thread sandwiched between a pair of sheets, including: a pair of nip rolls arranged with their axes parallel to each other for nipping the elastic thread between the pair of sheets being conveyed in a conveyance direction; a needle arranged upstream of the nip roll in the conveyance direction for guiding and arranging the elastic thread between the pair of sheets while dispensin...