ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,060, issued on April 14, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Device for producing and conditioning a multi-component mixture and method for operating a device of this kind" was invented by Bernhard Ill (Hohenweiler, Austria), Mario Metzler (Goetzis, Austria) and Christian Schwabl (Bregenz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for producing and processing a multi-component mixture, the device comprising a mixing chamber which has an outlet, wherein the device has a closure element which can be moved in the direction of a longitudinal axis L of the mixing chamber in order t...