ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,971, issued on May 20.
"System and method for forming a garland" was invented by Lakshmanan Varadan (Markham, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for forming a garland from garland components such as flowers and greenery, where a core rope is retained against a drive roller at a first position, and a rotating cross member supports a spool of binding thread. The rotating cross member rotates the spool around the core rope to wind the binding thread around the core rope to secure one of the garland components against the core rope, and the drive roller then displaces the core rope to a second position to enable th...