ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,289, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VOITH PATENT GMBH (Heidenheim, Germany).
"Adjusting rolls" was invented by Jose Luiz Campos Souza (Heidenheim, Germany), Marc Erkelenz (Neu-Ulm, Germany) and Torben Beckmann (Neu-Ulm, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for adjusting a suction roll. The method includes: recording images and/or videos of the exterior of the roll and transmitting the recording to a computing unit; determining the actual values of the position of the sealing strips and/or edge deckles and/or other, non-visible components by the computing unit through image analysis of the image and/o...