ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,009, issued on June 3, was assigned to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Auxiliary tool" was invented by Nuno Jose Lopes Carrolo (Lisbon, Portugal), Qiu Jianliang (Lisbon, Portugal) and Pedro Matias (Lisbon, Portugal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auxiliary tool for fixing a free end of an adhesive tape wrapped around a strand comprises a base plate and a rotatable ring with a receptacle."
The patent was filed on May 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/144,402.
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