US Patent Issued to BOBST MEX on Aug. 26 for "Sheet material processing unit and methods for assessing an alignment" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,460, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to BOBST MEX SA (Mex, Switzerland).

"Sheet material processing unit and methods for assessing an alignment" was invented by Francis Pilloud (Clarens, Switzerland), Thomas Hofmann (Geneva, Switzerland) and Olivier Fauconneau (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet material processing unit (10) is described. It comprises an upper tool (18) and a lower tool (14), wherein the upper tool (18) and the lower tool (14) are configured to interact with each other in order to process sheet material (26). Furthermore, a camera unit (40) is provided which is arranged such that it is able ...