US Patent Issued to Heidelberger Druckmaschinen on April 21 for "Device and method for capturing the surface of a rotation body for a printing press" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,454, issued on April 21, was assigned to Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg, Germany).

"Device and method for capturing the surface of a rotation body for a printing press" was invented by Witold Gantzke (Munich), Andreas Bottger (Heidelberg, Germany) and Andreas Poyer (Weiden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a method for capturing the surface of a rotation body for a printing press, being a cylinder, a roller, a sleeve for a cylinder or roller, or a sleeve for a cylinder or roller having a printing form, include a motor rotating the body around an axial axis, a light source illuminating an area of the su...