ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,641, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Zahoransky AG (Todtnau, Germany).

"Dividing-up device and brush-manufacturing machine having a dividing-up device" was invented by Christian Graf (Kirchzarten, Germany) and Benedikt Renz (Schonau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improvements in the technical field of brush manufacture are provided by a dividing-up device (1), which includes a dividing-up disc (5) with at least two dividing-up indents (6) formed at its circumference. In order for it to be possible to adapt an effective indent volume of the dividing-up indents (6) as desired, the dividing-up device (1) also includes an a...