US Patent Issued to Michael Weinig on Feb. 10 for "Method of applying a graphic to a product formed from individual wooden sticks" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,044, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Michael Weinig AG (Tauberbischofsheim, Germany).

"Method of applying a graphic to a product formed from individual wooden sticks" was invented by Jochen Ganz (Tauberbischofsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is used to apply a graphic to a product formed at least partially from individual wooden sticks. The graphic is produced by a printing method. To ensure that printed products can be produced easily and cost-effectively, the graphic is divided into graphic sections that are printed onto the wooden sticks. These are put together after the printing process, with the graphic ...