ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,510, issued on March 11, was assigned to FOSBER S.P.A. (Pescaglia, Italy).

"Single facer with heating plates for producing corrugated board" was invented by Mauro Adami (Viareggio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The single facer includes a first feed path for feeding a first paper web towards a corrugating nip defined between a first corrugating roller and a second corrugating roller. The single facer also includes a second feed path for feeding a second paper web towards a pressure nip defined between the first corrugating roller and a pressure member co-acting with the first corrugating roller. A respective heating system is...