ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,118, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC (Mentor, Ohio).

"Cutting device and method for severing non-woven-in sections of threads or filaments woven in textile ribbons" was invented by Stephan Buhler (Buchs, Switzerland) and Dirk Boltersdorf (Kreuzau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting device includes a ribbon conveying table configured to convey a textile ribbon having a metallized thread or filament quasi-endlessly woven/non-woven in the fabric of the ribbon; at least two cutting assemblies spaced apart from one another along the conveying direction of the textile ribbon, ...