ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,143, issued on July 21, was assigned to LECTRA (Paris), AMVALOR (Paris), ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D'ARTS ET METIERS (ENSAM) (Paris), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris) and CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL DES ARTS ET METIERS (Paris).
"Modular comb element for a machine for automatic cutting of a mat of sheets of material" was invented by Ghailen Ben Ghorbal (Talence, France), Didier Chabirand (Cestas, France), Regis Lallement (Cestas, France) and Gilles Regnier (L'Hay-les-Roses, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular comb element for a machine for automatically cutting a mat of sheets of material. The cutting machi...