ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,445, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FHM Investments Ltd (Oldham, Great Britain).

"Cylinder processing device" was invented by Frank Thomas Headen-Morris (Oldham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing apparatus for a plurality of cylinders that includes a superstructure having a support frame and a rotary structure mounted to the support frame for rotation about a rotational axis. The rotary structure includes a plurality of cylinder stations, angularly spaced about the rotational axis, each configured, in use, to receive a cylinder a plurality of restraining arms, each restraining arm corresponding to a respec...