ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,333, issued on April 21, was assigned to Signode Industrial Group LLC (Tampa, Fla.).
"Strapping tool" was invented by Andreas Keller (Birr, Switzerland), Guido Leine (Koetinchem, Netherlands), Kurt Bolliger (Ehrendingen, Switzerland), Michael Wettstein (Lenzburg, Switzerland), Samuel Hochstrasser (Fallanden, Switzerland) and Mirco Neeser (Ehrendingen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping tool configured to tension metal strap around a load and, after tensioning, attach overlapping portions of the strap to one another by cutting notches into a seal element positi...