ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,256, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).
"Rewind system" was invented by Qiwen Shi (Ningde, China), Han Wang (Ningde, China) and Qiancheng Yang (Ningde, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rewind system includes a conveyor assembly and a rewind apparatus. The conveyor assembly is configured to convey strips along a plurality of paths each configured to convey at least one strip. The rewind apparatus includes a drum and a plurality of shafts. The strip on each path is rewound around one of the shafts. Two adjacent shafts do not take up strips simultaneously. The drum is c...