US Patent Issued to Cerro Wire on Sept. 16 for "Apparatus and method for direct printing on corrugated metal clad cable" (Alabama Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,368, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Cerro Wire LLC (Hartselle, Ala.).

"Apparatus and method for direct printing on corrugated metal clad cable" was invented by Jon Kopfer (Huntsville, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for direct printing on corrugated metal clad cable. The apparatus includes an entrance having one or more entrance rollers, a set of lower rollers, a series of printheads near the entrance, a UV curing station downstream of the printheads, one or more exit rollers, a print controller and a series of ink tanks. The entrance and exit rollers maintain the cable in proper position and alignme...