ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,044, issued on June 3, was assigned to KOHLAM LLC (Uniontown, Ohio).
"Multi-layer composite alignment device" was invented by Herbert B. Kohler (Uniontown, Ohio) and Stefan Wick (Oberbuchsiten, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an alignment device capable of making high-speed adjustments to successive top sheets relative to underlying backings as they are conveyed toward an application station for lamination, in order to ensure that each successive top sheet is properly aligned prior to being laminated to its backing. In desirable embodiments, the alignment device can achieve successive angular corrections at a r...