US Patent Issued to Nordson on Feb. 24 for "Apparatus and method for extruding a fluid material" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,830, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Nordson Corp. (Westlake, Ohio).

"Apparatus and method for extruding a fluid material" was invented by Salvatore Giovanni Iuliano (Eau Claire, Wis.), Michael Kenneth Truscott (Chippewa Falls, Wis.), Brandon James Schultz (Chippewa Falls, Wis.), Gerrit Van de Rostyne (Overmere, Belgium), Cathy Gomez (Alsemberg, Belgium) and Gunther Lambrecht (Assenede, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extrusion die has first and second die bodies that define an extrusion cavity therebetween. The extrusion cavity has an inlet, a primary manifold that extends from the inlet along a flow direction, and an o...