ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,151, issued on April 14, was assigned to Tecnau S.r.l. (Ivrea, Italy).

"Cutter and method of separation for sheets printed from a continuous web susceptible of longitudinal divisions and relative web" was invented by Giuliano De Marco (Ivrea, Italy) and Emanuela De Marco (Ivrea, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Separator cutter for printed sheets from a continuous paper web provides multiple longitudinal divisions of different working sections with a series of single or adjacent sheets. The sheets have respective print areas with texts and/or images, while the cutter includes margining knives and longitudinal dividing knives and...