ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,206, issued on June 10, was assigned to BOBST LYON (Bron, France).

"Unit for forming a plate element for manufacturing folding boxes" was invented by Phillippe Fleury (Saint Jean des Vignes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unit for forming a plate element for the continuous flow manufacturing of folding boxes from plate elements, the plate elements being successively inserted into the unit and moving in a feed direction, comprising pairs of rotary cylindrical shafts, carrying forming tooling, which forms the plate elements using slitting, creasing and cutting operations, comprising a cutting unit, and pairs of rotary cylindri...