ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,729, issued on Oct. 28.
"Natural leather trimming machine and natural leather conditioning plant" was invented by Maximilian Turchi (Prato, Italy) and Alessio Idoli (Pistoia, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a natural leather trimming machine including: an ironing device for stretching and removing creases and wrinkles from the leather, cutting means for cutting the leather along at least one cutting line, a detection unit configured to detect the position of the leather, the shape of at least one relative end edge, and the position of any defects close to at least one relative end edge, a plurality of conveyor belts...