ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,222, issued on July 21, was assigned to ZEISERGMBH (Emmingen-Liptingen, Germany).
"Numbering unit with universal lower part for vertical and horizontal numbering units" was invented by Oliver Kostenbader (Tuttlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a numbering unit includes an upper part and a universal lower part configured to receive both an upper part of a vertical numbering unit and an upper part of a horizontal numbering unit."
The patent was filed on Sept. 10, 2021, under Application No. 18/044,319.
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