ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,846, issued on June 23, was assigned to TEWS ELEKTRONIK GMBH & Co. KG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Cigarette machine comprising a suction belt conveyor" was invented by Udo Schlemm (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cigarette machine comprises a suction belt conveyor including a rod guide channel, wherein the rod guide channel is delimited on one side by a material-conveying suction belt. Two channel cheeks are positioned opposite one another and configured to adjoin the rod guide channel An electromagnetic measuring apparatus comprises a resonator. The resonator comprises a first resonator half positioned on the side of the ...