ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,745, issued on July 15, was assigned to Elevated Materials US LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Roll exchange chamber, roll-to-roll processing system and method of continuously providing a flexible substrate" was invented by Frank Schnappenberger (Johannesberg, Germany) and Thomas Leipnitz (Alzenau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roll exchange chamber for exchanging a substrate roll is described. The roll exchange chamber includes a rotatable base construction being rotatable around a central axis. The base construction comprises a first roll holder for holding a first substrate roll, a second roll holder for holding a second sub...