ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,825, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Strip defect repair device" was invented by Zhifeng Wu (Ningde, China), Chao Guo (Ningde, China) and Shaojun Qiu (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strip defect repair device configured to repair a coating defect of a strip and includes a detection module, a transfer module, and a repair module. The detection module is configured to detect the coating defect of the strip and feed back a position signal corresponding to the coating defect. The transfer module is configured to respond to the position signal and drive the ...