ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,616, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) (Verden, Germany).
"Method and device for handling (flat) objects" was invented by Josef Schulte (Aschendorf, Germany), Andreas Prahm (Barssel, Germany) and Matthias Vocks (Strucklingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for handling flat objects, in particular sanitary products, such as nappies, sanitary towels or the like, wherein a group of objects is subjected to a compression operation in a compression device so that the group of objects has a degree of compression as a result of the compression. A plurality of compression devices are arranged one ...