D04B 9/12
Circular knitting machines with independently-movable needles: with provision for incorporating pile threads
Official title: with provision for incorporating pile threads
D04B9/12 (Circular knitting machines with independently-movable needles: with provision for incorporating pile threads) appears on 105 US grants and 30 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D04B- Granted patents
- 105
- Published applications
- 30
- Assignees
- 46
- Inventors
- 113
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Knit fastener loop products4 Nov 2025US 12,460,327 B2Velcro IP Holdings LLC
- Circular knitting machine for knitting pile fabric5 Aug 2025US 12,378,708 B2Pai Lung Machinery Mill Co., Ltd.
- Single-faced pile fabric and preparation method thereof10 Sep 2024US 12,084,794 B1Changshu Huakun Knitting Co., Ltd.
- Circular knitting machine for manufacturing open-work knitted fabric18 Jun 2024US 12,012,677 B2Santoni S.P.A.
- Circular knitting machine and method for knitting double-sided plush fabric with circular knitting machine27 Mar 2025US 2025/0101646 A1Pai Lung Machinery Mill Co., Ltd.
- Circular knitting machine for knitting pile fabric with short stitch length16 Jan 2025US 2025/0019873 A1Pai Lung Machinery Mill Co., Ltd.
- A circular knitting machine with sinker selection and related method for knitting24 Oct 2024US 2024/0352633 A1Santoni S.P.A.
- Knit fastener loop products7 Dec 2023US 2023/0392307 A1Velcro IP Holdings LLC
- A circular knitting machine for manufacturing open-work knitted fabric16 Jun 2022US 2022/0186412 A1Santoni S.P.A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Circular weft knitting machine222US 5,095,720 AAnnedeen Hosiery Mill, Inc. · 1992
- Anatomical isotonic sock and method of knitting the same74US 5,335,517 A1994
- Knitted article62US 4,732,015 AAmerican Doubloon Corporation · 1988
- Socks of multi-stage pile structure50US 7,677,061 B2Okamoto Corporation · 2010
- Footwear system38US 5,595,005 A1997