ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,012, issued on May 6, was assigned to BOBST MEX SA (Mex, Switzerland).
"Hot foil stamping press" was invented by Christophe De Gaillande (Les Monts-de-Corsier, Switzerland), Christoph Vollmer (Vevey, Switzerland) and Haoming Song (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot foil stamping press with a pressing table (10) on which a sheet can be advanced, a pressing system (20) for pressing a foil (14) onto the sheet, a guiding system (18) for guiding the foil (14) over the sheet, the guiding system (18) defining a foil transportation path which extends across the path along which the sheet is being advanced, a holder (11) for receiv...