ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,657, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Lightning Source LLC (LaVergne, Tunisia).
"Case cover binding apparatus" was invented by Zoran Belevski (LaVergne, Tenn.), Joshua Sanders (LaVergne, Tenn.), Danny Howell (LaVergne, Tenn.) and John Kwiatkowski (LaVergne, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automated book binding may include a staging platform configured to receive book covers, with first and second walls extending perpendicular to the staging platform, the first wall oriented parallel to the second wall. A controller, in at least an automatic trim adjustment mode, determines one or more book covers as being present...