ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,322, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Dukane IAS LLC (St. Charles, Ill.).

"Apparatus and a method for bonding webs of non-woven plastic material" was invented by Justin Marshall Lafferty (Marshfield, Wis.), Matthew James Dittrich (Chagrin Falls, Ohio), Paul J. Golko (Crystal Lake, Ill.) and Leo Klinstein (Glenview, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus having a first treatment module and a second treatment module, at least one of which includes a welding device for treating one or more workpieces. The apparatus has a controller arranged to: receive a real-time amplitude signal of ultrasonic vibration of at least one of...