ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,758, issued on April 21, was assigned to SUZHOU SLAC PRECISION EQUIPMENT Co. LTD (Suzhou, China).

"Multi-station neck forming equipment for ring-pull cans" was invented by Bingsheng Wang (Suzhou, China), Yunhua Niu (Suzhou, China), Tianqi Wu (Suzhou, China), Lingguang Kong (Suzhou, China) and Yang Wang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-station neck forming equipment for ring-pull cans includes at least two necking stations, each including: a main shaft turret assembly, drive shaft turret assembly, tailstock support assembly and frame assembly. The main shaft turret assembly includes a main turret shaft, mold turr...