ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,350, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to PIRELLI TYRE S.P.A. (Milan).

"Working station for deposition of elementary semifinished products for building green tyres" was invented by Emanuele Luca Schiavon (Milan), Marco Cantu' (Milan), Matteo Calderoni (Milan) and Lorenzo Avanzini (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working station including at least one feeding apparatus for feeding an elementary semifinished product, a forming drum, an anthropomorphic robotized arm associated with the forming drum, a control apparatus for sending movement commands to the anthropomorphic robotized arm in order to move the forming drum in a working ...