US Patent Issued to HOSOKAWA ALPINE on July 1 for "Process and equipment to regulate the thickness of oriented tubular film that is manufactured in a film blowing process" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,920, issued on July 1, was assigned to HOSOKAWA ALPINE AG (Augsburg, Germany).

"Process and equipment to regulate the thickness of oriented tubular film that is manufactured in a film blowing process" was invented by Bernd Bayer (Bobingen, Germany), Georg Scharpf (Muhlhausen, Germany) and Hans-Peter Schule (Augsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The thickness profile of a film tube manufactured using a film blowing process is regulated using a control system consisting of segmented control zones and at least at two measuring units for the film thickness such that the specified target film thickness profile exhibits deviation...