Patents by Inventor Kristina Fuhrmann

Kristina Fuhrmann has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for knitting a three-dimensional knitted fabric
    Patent number: 10988871
    Abstract: A three-dimensional knitted fabric with a large-diameter circular knitting machine is knitted with a plurality of stitches that form a plurality of stitch courses oriented in each case in a stitch-course direction of the knitted fabric and a plurality of stitch wales oriented in each case in a stitch-wale direction of the knitted fabric, wherein at least one of the stitches is in the form of at least one corrugation-forming stitch, which extends in the stitch-wale direction over a plurality of stitch courses and binds at least one corrugation in the knitted fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: RHEINISCH-WESTFÄLISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE (RWTH) AACHEN
    Inventors: Kristina Fuhrmann, Thomas Gries, Isabel Schrepfer, Richard Riedlinger