ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,039, issued on March 24, was assigned to Dexerials Corp. (Shimotsuke, Japan).

"Roll manufacturing method, roll manufacturing apparatus, roll, and transfer object" was invented by Kazuhiko Noda (Shimotsuke, Japan), Katsuhiro Doi (Shimotsuke, Japan), Junichi Sasaki (Shimotsuke, Japan), Asahiko Nogami (Shimotsuke, Japan) and Kyoko Sakurai (Shimotsuke, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roll manufacturing apparatus includes a rotary device including a rotary encoder, a cutting tool stage that holds a spindle unit, which includes a rotatable cutting blade, reciprocatably in a radial direction of a roll and is movable in the radial di...