ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,583, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CHANGSUNG SOFTGEL Co. LTD (Pocheon-si, South Korea).

"Automatic gel ribbon thickness adjustment device" was invented by Ju-Su Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic gel ribbon thickness adjustment device is provided. The automatic gel ribbon thickness adjustment device includes a driving device installed on a spreader box for supplying liquid gelatin to a casting drum by spreading the liquid gelatin in a sheet form, a blocking plate of the spreader box moves vertically by the driving device to adjust an opening width of an outlet, a thickness measurement device is ins...