ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,338, issued on April 21, was assigned to TITAN UMREIFUNGSTECHNIK GMBH & Co. KG (Schwelm, Germany).
"Strapping apparatus and method of handling strapping" was invented by Lukas Buehne (Schwelm, Germany), Christian Noelke (Duesseldorf, Germany) and Bastian Protzmann (Wuppertal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strapping apparatus for cutting a strap on a package has a treatment head having on a lower side a full base plate having a lift edge on a full base plate. A manipulator carries the treatment head for movement in three dimensions. A controller operates the manipulating means for first passing a corner of the base plate u...