ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,093, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to BOBST MEX SA (Mex, Switzerland).

"Stacker module for a converting machine" was invented by Olivier Favre (Bussigny, Switzerland), Raoul Michoud (Cossonay-Ville, Switzerland), Jonas Duboux (Saubraz, Switzerland), Olivier Muhlbauer (Penthalaz, Switzerland), Nicolas Brizzi (Martigny, Switzerland), Dimitri Favini (Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland) and Pierre Malherbe (Chavornay, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a stacker module for a folder-gluer machine, the stacker module being located downstream of a transfer module in a direction of transportation of th...