ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,729, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Adhesive application device and method of applying adhesive" was invented by Yuji Kato (Tianjin, China), Kazunori Taguchi (Pudong New Area, China), Xuyang Fang (Pudong New Area, China), Yoshiki Itakura (Toyota, Japan) and Tadayoshi Umemura (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adhesive application device includes a coater and an air conditioning device. The coater includes a roll and a roll temperature control device. The roll has an elongated shape having an axis and outer surface and is rotatable around the axis. The roll holds thermosetting...