ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,011, issued on March 4, was assigned to DEXERIALS Corp. (Shimotsuke, Japan).
"Sliding device for supplying or removing a sliding process material to or from a surface of an object to be conveyed" was invented by Takayuki Saito (Shimotsuke, Japan), Masahiro Nishimoto (Shimotsuke, Japan), Ikuo Mitsushima (Kanuma, Japan) and Masaki Kaneko (Shimotsuke, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding device configured to perform a sliding process on a surface of an object to be slid includes a sliding part including sliding bodies each having a flat working surface; a first driving mechanism configured to regularly move the sliding bodies ...