ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,231, issued on March 25, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"Combination of a dispenser for dispensing portions of sealing material with a sealing material" was invented by Holger Eichelmann (Hilden, Germany), Norbert Bialas (Dormagen, Germany), Massimiliano Casali (Pavia, Italy), Peter O'Sullivan (Wicklow, Ireland), Rudolf Neumayer (Grosskarolinenfeld, Germany) and Udo Hinterseer (Wattersdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination of a dispenser for dispensing portions of sealing material and a sealing material in the form of a flexible film, wherein the sealing material comprises polytetraf...