ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,400, issued on April 21, was assigned to Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier- und Wellpappenwerke & Co. (Bielefeld, Germany).

"Device and method for processing a strand of cushioning material, and cushioning material coil" was invented by Bastian Schalk (Detmold, Germany), Saskia Lux (Detmold, Germany), Tim Matzke (Herford, Germany), Vitali Krebs (Ahlen, Germany) and Marco Schwarberg (Melle, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for processing a strand of dunnage material, such as a coil of dunnage material, may include a winding device configured to wind the strand of dunnage material around a winding center, and an adhesi...