ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,532, issued on June 3, was assigned to BOBST MEX SA (Mex, Switzerland).
"Sheet processing machine" was invented by Arnaud Dekervel (Thonon-les-bains, France) and Patrice Chatry (Lugrin, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet processing machine comprises a receiving area (38) for collecting a sheet pile and a device (36) for determining the height of the sheet pile. The device (36) comprises a manually displaceable first sensor element arranged at a first side (48) of the receiving area (38), and an automatically displaceable second sensor element (50) arranged at an opposite side (52) of the receiving area (38) such that the fi...