US Patent Issued to KOENIG & BAUER on Sept. 23 for "Device for aligning magnetic or magnetizable particles and machine for generating optically variable image elements" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,545, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KOENIG & BAUER AG (Wurzburg, Germany).

"Device for aligning magnetic or magnetizable particles and machine for generating optically variable image elements" was invented by Tobias Diehm (Wertheim, Germany) and Michael Muller (Karlstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples include a device for aligning magnetic or magnetizable particles contained in a coating agent applied to one side of a web-format or sheet-format substrate. An alignment device comprises one or more magnetic elements that, during normal operation, are fixed to a frame at the transport path and, in a working posit...