ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,249, issued on March 24, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc..
"Roller for hot stamping" was invented by Laurent Callamand (Thoirette-Coisia, France), Rodolphe De Simone (Beard-Geovreissiat, France), Arnaud Villeneuve (Plateau d'Hauteville, France) and Nicolas Pradines (Samognat, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot stamping roller, the roller being designed to cooperate with an object to be decorated, the roller comprising at least a first roller part and a second roller part, each roller part being configured to rotate around a longitudinal axis of the roller, the rotation of the first roller part being independent of t...