ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,121, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Signode Industrial Group LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Strapping machine having compact strap dispensers" was invented by Christopher S. Krohn (Grayslake, Ill.), Joel Patel (Hawthorn Woods, Ill.), Douglas Felsecker (Saint Charles, Ill.), Nicole Ostryzniuk (St. John, Ind.) and Joseph E. Lininger (Union Grove, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping machine that includes a plurality of compact strap dispensers that collectively take up less space adjacent to the frame of the strapping machine and thus provide a strapping machine with an overall ...