ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,027, issued on March 24, was assigned to AIDA ENGINEERING LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Plate-like material feeding device" was invented by Seiji Nakoshi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a plate-like material feeding device configured to sandwich a plate-like material between a lower roll rotatably supported on a device main body and an upper roll which is rotatable and arranged to face the lower roll in parallel thereto, so as to convey the plate-like material. The plate-like material feeding device includes: a lower gear integrally provided on a rotation shaft of the lower roll; an intermediate gear which is ...