Patents Examined by Danny Worrell
  • Patent number: 12281421
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a display program including a set of program instructions for a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a camera, a display, and a controller. The set of program instructions, when executed by the controller, causes the display apparatus to perform: acquiring a shot image representing a real space, the shot image being an image shot by the camera; acquiring target information indicating a thread spool of a detection target; detecting a thread spool position on the shot image for the thread spool of the detection target, based on the shot image and the target information; generating a display image based on the shot image, the display image indicating the thread spool position; and displaying the display image on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Minematsu, Kazutaka Imaizumi, Kazuki Shibata
  • Patent number: 12281418
    Abstract: A knit sock includes a foot portion having an upper instep area and a lower sole area integrally knit of a body yarn in circumferential courses and axial wales. The lower sole area defines inner and outer arch regions. The inner arch region incorporates a targeted compression zone adapted to reside generally adjacent an inner arch of a wearer's foot. The compression zone includes axially extending compression ridges of variable length spaced apart from a top of the compression zone to a bottom of the compression zone. When the sock is worn, a compression force applied by the foot portion within the targeted compression zone is greater than the compression force in directly adjacent areas of said foot portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Flagship Brands, LLC
    Inventor: Hugh Gaither
  • Patent number: 12276059
    Abstract: Yarn injection device for injecting yarn sections into a substrate, wherein the yarn injection device comprises:—a yarn storage for holding a number of spools with yarn,—a feeding device configured to feed lengths of yarn to an injection unit, the feeding device comprising: ?a number of yarn tubes, each yarn tube defining a yarn channel configured to accommodate a respective yarn, ?a number of cutting devices located being configured to cut a number of yarn sections,—the injection unit comprising: ?an injection needle guide defining a number of first passages extending over a vertical distance and a number of second passages extending over a horizontal distance, ?a number of moveable injection needles configured to pass through the first holes of the injection needle guide, wherein yarn sections in the yarn tubes located below the moveable injection needles are injected into the substrate when the moveable injection needles move downward through the injection needle guide, ?at least one needle actuator config
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Sisgrass B.V.
    Inventors: George Alexander Mullan, Thomas Schuurman, Ivo Johannes Gerardus Lamot, Eduard Andreas Galesloot
  • Patent number: 12276058
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an embroidery machine thread tension adjusting device. An embroidery machine thread tension adjusting device according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided for an embroidery machine comprising a needle bar, a thread take-up unit, a hook, and an embroidery frame, and is configured to adjust the tension of an upper thread withdrawn from a spool and supplied to a needle of the needle bar through the thread take-up unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MOBASE SUNSTAR CO., LTD
    Inventor: Byeong Jun Son
  • Patent number: 12270136
    Abstract: In a pressing device, a first member is movable in an up-down direction along with a presser bar of a sewing machine in a mounted state in which the pressing device is mounted on the presser bar. A second member supports a presser foot. The presser bar applies, through the second member, a presser force to the presser foot downward in the mounted state. A third member is disposed between the first and second members in the up-down direction in the mounted state. A gap-adjusting member adjusts a gap between the first and third members by contacting at least one of the first and third members. An urging member urges the second and third members away from each other with an urging force smaller than the pressing force of the presser bar. A guide part guides movement of the second and third members relative to the first member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroki Mori
  • Patent number: 12270132
    Abstract: A knit sock is integrally formed of a body yarn in circumferential courses and axial wales, and includes a foot portion having a heel and a toe, and an ankle portion joined to the foot portion and defining an open leg end of the sock. A first targeted compression zone is formed with the foot portion between the heel and the toe, and includes spaced-apart axial compression ridges extending axially outward from the heel at a first end of the first compression zone to a second end of the first compression zone. A second targeted compression zone is formed with the ankle portion between the heel and the open leg end of the sock, and includes spaced-apart axial compression ridges extending axially outward from the heel at a first end of the second compression zone to a second end of the second compression zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Flagship Brands, LLC
    Inventors: Hugh Gaither, John Gaither, James Richard
  • Patent number: 12270131
    Abstract: A knitted upper for an article of footwear. The knitted upper is formed essentially as a single piece in a three-dimensional knitting process. The knitted upper includes at least one activated shrink yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Rainer Unnewehr, Stefan Tamm, Claudiu-Ionut Popescu
  • Patent number: 12269193
    Abstract: The present invention related to a method of for the production of textile articles, I which the textile articles can be disassembled automatically or semi-automatically, in which, when sewing or stitching, a polymer melt yarn is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: REGENERATION BVBA
    Inventor: Cédric Vanhoeck
  • Patent number: 12264422
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides an upper for an article of footwear. The upper may include a knitted component with a knit element defining a portion of at least one of an exterior surface of the upper and an opposite interior surface of the upper, the interior surface defining a void. The knitted component may further include a tongue, where the tongue extends through a throat area of the upper, and where the tongue comprises a lateral edge and a medial edge. The knitted component may further include at least one raised element extending a height above the exterior surface of the knit element and extending a length along at least one of the lateral edge and the medial edge of the tongue, where the tongue and the at least one raised element have a common yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Bhupesh Dua, Adrian Meir, Benjamin A. Shaffer, Bruce Huffa
  • Patent number: 12258689
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a prosthesis (100) comprising an openworked three-dimensional knit (101) comprising a front face and a rear face, each face being formed with one or more laps of yarns defining pores on said face, the front face being bound to the rear face by connecting yarns defining a spacer, characterized in that the connecting yarns are distributed so that they define an entanglement of yarns crossing each other at the spacer, without obstructing the pores of the front and rear faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SOFRADIM PRODUCTION
    Inventor: Julie Lecuivre
  • Patent number: 12252819
    Abstract: Knitted components may include a first knit layer including a first yarn, a second knit layer, and a plurality of inlaid courses of a high tenacity yarn having a tenacity of at least six grams-force per denier. The plurality of inlaid courses of the high tenacity yarn may include at least three courses of high tenacity yarn, each of which may be separated from an adjacent course of the first plurality of courses of the high tenacity yarn by no more than five courses of the first yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Lauren E. Cox, Seth M. Wiberg, Roberto Zavala
  • Patent number: 12247333
    Abstract: A crochet assistance apparatus for supporting at least a portion of a flexible filament may include a first plurality of elongated projections and a second plurality of elongated projections, and may be movable between a first position and a second position. Each elongated projection of the first plurality of elongated projections may be proximate to the second plurality of elongated projections when the apparatus is in the first position, and one or more elongated projections of the first plurality of elongated projections may be moved out of being proximate to the second plurality of elongated projections when the apparatus is in the second position. A guide assembly may have a guide aperture that extends above both the first plurality of elongated projections and the second plurality of elongated projections. A tensioner assembly may be configured to receive and exert a resistance to the flexible filament moving through the tensioner assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventor: James Edward Vela
  • Patent number: 12247335
    Abstract: Machine for sewing envelopes into pouches, in correspondence with an opening delimited by two free overlapping flaps, the machine includes a support base; a sewing head, mechanically mounted on the support base, configured to make a sewing line along a sewing direction; retaining means for retaining the free flaps of said envelope like a bag; first movement means for realizing a relative movement between said sewing head and the holding means along a first movement direction substantially parallel to the sewing line; second movement means for moving the sewing head and/or holding means at least along a second movement direction orthogonal with respect to the first movement direction; at least a first sensor configured to detect an extremal edge of the free edges; at least one electronic control unit for generating the relative motion between the support base and/or the holding means along the second movement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: BORSOI S.R.L.
    Inventor: Alessandro Borsoi
  • Patent number: 12241191
    Abstract: In a sewing machine, an arm includes, on one side thereof in a first direction, a head. A needle bar is disposed at the head to reciprocally move in a second direction. A feed mechanism feeds a workpiece from one side toward the other side of the head in a third direction. The projection unit disposed at the head projects a projection image toward a bed. The projection unit includes an emitter for projecting image light of the projection image. The photographing unit disposed at the head captures a photographing target. The photographing unit includes an incident portion on which light reflected by the photographing target is incident. The emitter and the incident portion are disposed further toward the one side of the arm in the first direction than the needle bar, and further toward the one side of the head in the third direction than the needle bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidenori Oka, Mitsuhiro Iida
  • Patent number: 12241186
    Abstract: Disclosed is a double-knit textile having a plurality of texturized inlay yarns movably positioned between a front layer (112) and a back layer (114) of the double-knit textile. The double-knit textile includes areas where a yarn from the back layer is transferred to the front layer and knitted in one or more knit stitches to form an interknitted location (116). The number of interknitted locations per unit area varies in different portions of the double-knit textile. The double-knit textile is configured to provide zoned insulation and/or cushioning features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Ricky Hendry, Alexandra Gully, Raj Mistry, Fay Ou-Yang, Karl Pinfold, Kamran Daneshvar, Huayu Fang, Yishu Lai
  • Patent number: 12241193
    Abstract: In the case of an embroidery image containing a plurality of individual parts, where at least two individual parts are to be stitched in the same color, an initial sequence is first generated by software of the individual parts to bear the same color. This is done by the user who clicks on the individual parts to bear the same color and the creation of a list corresponding to the selected individual parts. Then, the user is able to rearrange that sequence by drawing new arrows on the embroidery image based on the proximity of the individual parts to each other in order to make stitching less visible on the embroidered product and to reduce the trim time in the embroidery process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: DRAWSITITCH INTERNATIONAL IIMITED
    Inventor: Ioannis Doukakis
  • Patent number: 12234582
    Abstract: A multi-color jacquard double-sided fabric has a technical front and a technical back, and is formed by knitting at least four yarns. The at least four yarns are divided into a plurality of color-developing sets, each of the sets includes two of the at least four yarns. The multi-color jacquard double-sided fabric includes jacquard segments located on the technical front and formed by one of the color-developing sets, and color development of each of the jacquard segments is presented by at least one of the following: 1) at least one standard front plating formed by two of the four yarns included in one of the color-developing sets; 2) at least one interchanged front plating formed by two of the four yarns included in one of the color-developing sets. The technical back of the multi-color jacquard double-sided fabric is formed by knitting the at least four yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: PAI LUNG MACHINERY MILL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chih-Chiang Lee
  • Patent number: 12227888
    Abstract: An automated system that can be used for prosthetic heart valve manufacturing or suturing procedures. The system can include a first automated fixture that includes an articulating arm and a target device holder. The system can also include one or more additional automated fixtures, which can be configured as one or more suturing arms that include another articulating arm and a needle holder. The first automated fixture can be configured to rotate a target device held by the holder to allow the one or more additional automated fixtures to perform operations such as form sutures on the target device without intervention of a human operator. The system can include a display system configured to display status information of a suturing procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James R. Cody, III, Ping-Yang Shih, Tiffany Diemtrinh Tran
  • Patent number: 12221728
    Abstract: An example method of manufacturing a knitted fabric that includes a non-knitted structure occurs in accordance with a programmed knit sequence for a multi-dimensional knitting machine. The method includes, providing a non-knitted structure to the multi-dimensional knitting machine at a point in time when a fabric structure has a first knit portion, wherein the first knit portion is formed based on a first type of knit pattern. The method also includes, after the providing of the non-knitted structure, following the programmed knit sequence to automatically adjust the multi-dimensional knitting machine to use a second type of knit pattern, distinct from a first type of knit pattern, to accommodate the non-knitted structure within a second knit portion that is adjacent to the first knit portion within the fabric structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Inventors: Stuart Wayne Dealey, Gaige DeHaven, Amy Lynne Stoltzfus, Simon John Baines, Christopher Bradford Doughty, Priyanshu Agarwal, Leah Resneck, Simge Uzun
  • Patent number: 12209342
    Abstract: An embroidery system includes a data reading device to read three-dimensional data of a design of an embroidery. The embroidery system includes processing circuitry to process the three-dimensional data read by the data reading device, to create embroidery data using height information included in the three-dimensional data. The embroidery system includes an embroidery forming section to form the embroidery on a target object according to the embroidery data created by the processing circuitry. The embroidery system includes a recording head to discharge a liquid droplet from a nozzle. The embroidery system includes control circuitry to control an operation of the recording head. The embroidery data includes data relating to an embroidery density that is a density of a thread in the embroidery and data relating to an application amount of the liquid droplet to be applied to the thread in the embroidery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Tanaka, Teppei Kikuchi, Yusuke Komine, Yuuki Gotoh