ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,611, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to IAI industrial systems B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).
"Positioning device for cards" was invented by Arnoud Augustinus (Eersel, Netherlands), Johannes Hendrikus Antonius Verheijen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Hendrik Jan Budel (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Jordy Donze ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands) and Marco Heesakkers (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a positioning device for rotatably and rectilinearly positioning a card with respect to a treatment unit having an axis of treatment. The positioning device comprises a card holder for holding a c...