ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,744, issued on July 15, was assigned to KOENIG & BAUER AG (Wurzburg, Germany).

"Method for activating at least one alignment segment of a processing machine" was invented by Bastian Deppisch (Karlstadt, Germany), Bernd Masuch (Kurnach, Germany) and Torsten Muller (Guntersleben, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples include activating at least one alignment segment of a processing machine. The at least one alignment segment is arranged before at least one processing unit of the processing machine that is activated. The at least one alignment segment includes a plurality of transport sections following one another in the tran...