ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,581, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH (Aalen, Germany).
"Apparatus for accommodating an article in a vacuum-coating installation" was invented by Frank Macionczyk (Oberkochen, Germany) and Erwin Green (Aalen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for accommodating an article in a vacuum-coating installation has a carrier with a coating opening and a retaining device for retaining the article in the coating opening. The retaining device has a pivot bearing that is secured on the carrier and a pivot axis, about which it is possible to pivot the retaining device to thereby turn the ar...