US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Sept. 15 for "Sucking apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,714, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sucking apparatus" was invented by Takuma Yabuta (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazunori Kouno (Osaka, Japan), Yoshinari Matsuyama (Osaka, Japan), Tomohiro Nakatani (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoyo Arita (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sucking apparatus for a sheet having adhesiveness includes a first member including a first surface that sucks the sheet, and a second member including a second surface that surrounds an outer periphery of the first surface and is in contact with the sheet. The first surface includes a plurality o...