ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,547, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Signode India Ltd. (Hyderabad, India).

"Strap-winding and strap-coil-deforming system" was invented by Sanjoy Ghosh (Hyderabad, India) and Srungari Ramu (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strap-winding and strap-coil-deforming system (10) configured to wind a strap segment (S) into a coil and then deform the strap coil to render it more compact and to reduce the likelihood that it will uncoil during handling, storage, or transport. The deformed strap coil is introduced into a discharge chute (DC) to discharge it away from the...