ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,885, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).
"Technique for marking a prolate object" was invented by Kilian Klages (Detmold, Germany), Alexander Hofmann (Hameln, Germany), Markus Traenkle (Dauchingen, Germany), Benjamin Aberle (Dunningen, Germany) and Markus Kiefer (Freiburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for providing a marking arranged or arrangeable in a circumferentially closed manner around a prolate object includes: a material interface for receiving a printed product output from a printer; a data interface for communicating with the printer for a providing or arr...