ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,866, issued on July 14, was assigned to Korber Technologies GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Arrangement for transversely axially conveying of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry" was invented by Oliver Deppe (Hamburg, Germany), Thomas Meins (Labenz, Germany), Daniel Diedrich (Hamburg, Germany), Marcus Wagner (Hamburg, Germany) and Bastian Wolff (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement and method for conveying rod-shaped articles of the tobacco-processing industry. The arrangement conveys article segments of first and second rows disposed side by side in pairs in a transverse axial direction. In a c...