ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,079, issued on June 3, was assigned to Lightning Source LLC (LaVergne, Tenn.).

"Dynamic mismatch correction system and method for book binding machines" was invented by Zoran Belevski (LaVergne, Tenn.), Joshua Sanders (LaVergne, Tenn.), Danny Howell (LaVergne, Tenn.), John Kwiatkowski (LaVergne, Tenn.), Kenneth McDonald (LaVergne, Tenn.), Joel Brawner (LaVergne, Tenn.) and Kevin Smith (LaVergne, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for automatically correcting book portion mismatches in a book binding operation. First sensor outputs relate to a first book portion sequence along a first assembly channel...