ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,329, issued on June 23, was assigned to BORGHI S.P.A. (Castelfranco Emilia, Italy).
"Feeding system for cotton wrapped sticks" was invented by Carlo Masotti (Castelfranco Emilia, Italy) and Paolo Poli (Castelfranco Emilia, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding system for cotton or flocked sticks comprises a first feeding assembly for moving first groups of sticks along a first feeding direction, a first storage compartment adapted to receive at least one first group of sticks from first feeding assembly, a transfer assembly for transferring a second group of sticks from said first storage compartment to a second storage comp...