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Card-Monroe Corp., "Yarn color placement system" (US8141505B2)

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Made by: Card-Monroe Corp.
Date: filed 15 Feb 2008; granted 27 Mar 2012
Number: US8141505B2
Themes: Machine tufting & Dalton, Tools & equipment

View at the source Cited in chapter 12, note 17

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Card-Monroe Corp., “Yarn color placement system” (US8141505B2), filed 15 Feb 2008; granted 27 Mar 2012. patents.google.com/patent/US8141505B2/en.

Research notes

The core ColorPoint patent: coordinates yarns of different colours on a tufting machine so that only the selected colour shows at each stitch, giving computer-placed multicolour patterns on broadloom machines. Continuations: US8359989 (stitch distribution control, 29 Jan 2013), US8776703 (15 Jul 2014), US9410276 and US10443173; European EP2100994. It was the patent asserted in Card-Monroe v. Tuftco (see event-cmc-v-tuftco-2017). The application predates the 2009 launch. Verified Oct 2026 from Google Patents snippets and a court opinion summary (vLex). Research note (Oct 2026): from search results; pages not opened.