ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,138, issued on June 2, was assigned to STRUCTA WIRE ULC (Vancouver, Canada).

"Turret roll formers, forming roller cassettes and related articles and methods" was invented by Narcis Rugina (Burnaby, Canada), William Spilchen (White Rock, Canada), Jeffrey Sacks (Vancouver, Canada) and Abraham J. Sacks (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turret roll forming machine includes at least one turret assembly carrying multiple rows of tooling (e.g., forming rollers), rotatable about an axis to selectively align rows of tooling with an input or output. A transmission is accessible from an exterior of the turret assembly without d...