# Hookless Fastener Co — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Hookless Fastener Co has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Gideon Sundback Invented the Modern Zipper](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/1219881/zipper-separable-fastener) — granted 1917
  The 1917 patent for the separable fastener that perfected the design of the modern zipper using interlocking teeth on two flexible tapes.

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