ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,806, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ESTL NV (Deerlijk, Belgium).

"Testing film with determination of force" was invented by Jelle Carl Dendauw (Oostrozebeke, Belgium) and Kristof Karel Maria Baeyens (Sint-Niklaas, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for measuring a stretching force on a film, including an unwinding station to hold and unwind a spool of stretch film via an unwinding motor, and including a first stretching station with a first driven stretch roller and a second driven stretch roller for imparting a predetermined first stretch to the stretch film. The device includes a second stretching station with a th...