US Patent Issued to KOENIG & BAUER on June 10 for "Cylinder for aligning magnetic or magnetizable particles, system for mounting and/or positioning magnetic elements at the cylinder, and machine for generating optically variable image elements" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,225, issued on June 10, was assigned to KOENIG & BAUER AG (Wurzburg, Germany).

"Cylinder for aligning magnetic or magnetizable particles, system for mounting and/or positioning magnetic elements at the cylinder, and machine for generating optically variable image elements" was invented by Tobias Diehm (Wertheim, Germany), Michael Muller (Karlstadt, Germany) and Emmanuel Thony (Rennaz, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples include a cylinder for aligning magnetic or magnetizable particles contained in a coating agent on a substrate in a region of an outer circumference of the cylinder in a matrix-like manner. A number of...