ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,866, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Atlas Copco IAS GmbH (Bretten, Germany).

"Device and method for applying an at least two-component viscous material to workpieces" was invented by Michael Sauer (Bretten, Germany), Adrian Jenz (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Christian Messenbrink (Stutensee, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for applying an at least two-component viscous material to workpieces, includes a metering unit which has a number of metering valves corresponding to the number of components of the viscous material, and a static mixer which has a mixing tube, for mixing the components introduced using the metering ...