ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,564, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Blade driving apparatus and cutting device" was invented by Yitai Guo (Ningde, China), Zhihua Wen (Ningde, China), Keqiang Li (Ningde, China), Yunru Shi (Ningde, China), Cong Zhang (Ningde, China) and Jianlei Wang (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blade driving apparatus configured to drive a blade of a cutting device to cut a web and includes an anvil and a slide assembly. The slide assembly includes a slide rail and a slide block that are slidably connected to each other. The slide block is connected to the anvil, and ...