ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,049, issued on April 15, was assigned to Kopernik SA (Luxembourg).

"Method for packing welding wire inside containers" was invented by Mirko Pagliari (Coldrerio, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention has as its object a method for packing a welding wire (25) inside a container (40) which includes at least the following steps: a feeding phase of said welding wire (25) inside a tube (13) placed in rotation to produce a prefixed torsion at each wire loop (25); a winding phase of the wire (25) coming out of said tube in rotation (13) on a core (20) configured to wind said wire (25) on it, said core (20) being provided w...