ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,873, issued on May 26, was assigned to Advanced Engineering Industrie Automation GmbH (Neualm, Austria).

"Device and method for peeling off protective films from plate-shaped objects" was invented by Lukas Moser (Annaberg, Austria) and Tim Moser (Annaberg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for peeling off at least one protective film from a plate-shaped object, a detachment device with at least one roller exerting a pressure force on the protective film in the edge region of the plate-shaped object and thereby detaches the protective film, the protective film being at least partially lifted from the plate-shaped object w...