US Patent Issued to Innovation Technology Steyr on Aug. 5 for "Apparatus for surface treatment of a workpiece in a production line" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,433, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Innovation Technology Steyr GmbH (Steyr, Austria).

"Apparatus for surface treatment of a workpiece in a production line" was invented by Alireza Eslamian (Steyr, Austria) and Martin Schifko (Steyr, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for surface treatment of a workpiece in a production line comprises a positioning frame (1) for the workpiece to be treated. The positioning frame has a coupling (3) for a positioning drive (4). In order to achieve an increase in the production cadence irrespective of the type of surface treatment without having to accept losses with regard to the sur...