ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,527, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HELLERMANNTYTON GmbH (Tornesch, Germany).
"Variable reservoir device" was invented by Taro David Fukuda (Hamburg, Germany) and Andreas Schwinn (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a reservoir device for feeding one-piece fixing ties, OPTs, to an automatic bundling tool device, ABT, wherein the reservoir device is configured to detachably hold the OPTs on at least one carrier unit of the reservoir device, in a row, with the carrier unit having a base and being configured to be moved to or through the ABT in order to have the OPTs detached from the carrier un...