US Patent Issued to Rossini SPA on April 21 for "Sleeves unitarily formed by additive manufacturing for mounting on rotating shafts of commercial printing machinery" (Spanish, American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,891, issued on April 21, was assigned to Rossini SPA (Rescaldina Milan, Italy).

"Sleeves unitarily formed by additive manufacturing for mounting on rotating shafts of commercial printing machinery" was invented by Felice Rossini (Milan), Marco Caccia (Suwanee, Ga.), Xavier Boadas Matamala (Barcelona, Spain) and Jaume Pregonas (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sleeve for mounting on a mandrel of a commercial printing machine can include distinct annular regions that are integrally formed simultaneously as a unitary structure without a forming mandrel and without any need to be adhered to one another in manufacturing ...