US Patent Issued to POSEIDON INDUSTRIES on Feb. 24 for "Machine for hybrid cutting, preparing and finishing a slab with finished face down and related method" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,813, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to POSEIDON INDUSTRIES INC. (Punta Gorda, Fla.).

"Machine for hybrid cutting, preparing and finishing a slab with finished face down and related method" was invented by Jose Antonio Alva (North Port, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine processes a slab that is positioned with the finished face down on vacuum pods on a work table. The side edges of the slab are cut with the slab upside by following a mirror imaged slab cut layout to form a slab corresponding substantially to the shape of a countertop. Without removing the cut slab from the vacuum pods and maintaining the finished face dow...