ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,241, issued on May 12, was assigned to GEMA SWITZERLAND GMBH (St. Gallen, Switzerland).

"Base body for a coating cell of a coating system, coating cell having such a base body and coating system having at least one coating cell" was invented by Peter Steiger (Gossau, Switzerland) and Georg Steger (St. Gallen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A main part for a coating cell of a coating plant has a modular design and is an exchangeable element within the entire system of the coating plant. The main part is further designed to be connectible to at least one sidewall in the form of a module, to provide a particularly user-specif...