ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,274, issued on June 23, was assigned to HellermannTyton GmbH & Co. KG (Tornesch, Germany).
"Automatic bundling tool device" was invented by Taro David Fukuda (Rastede, Germany) and Hagen Spiess (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods that improve production processes in which automatic bundling tool devices (ABT) bundle a good by one-piece-ties (OPT). The improvements include an ABT for bundling a bundle good with a OPT, which includes a band part end and a head part. The ABT includes a guiding device and a tensioning device configured to tension the OPT. The tensioning device is further configured to...