ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,156, issued on March 25, was assigned to HELLERMANNTYTON GmbH (Tornesch, Germany).
"Bundling tool device" was invented by Taro David Fukuda (Hamburg, Germany) and Andreas Schwinn (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an automatic bundling tool device (ABT) for bundling a bundling good by means of a one-piece-tie (OPT). In an aspect, an ABT includes: a holding unit configured to receive, hold, and release a respective OPT which is provided to the ABT from an external reservoir of OPTs; a linear motion guiding unit configured to linearly guide the holding unit in a longitudinal direction while movi...