ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,151, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG (Andernach, Germany) and KM Transderm Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Tool set for manufacturing adhesive patches, method of manufacturing an adhesive patch and adhesive layering" was invented by Markus Bee (Ketting, Germany), Helena Gallinger (Koblenz, Germany), Alexander Saifert (Andernach, Germany), Andreas Weber-Stebliwez (Andernach, Germany), Georg Schlogel (Andernach, Germany), Akio Nishiura (Osaka, Japan), Akinori Sasaki (Osaka, Japan) and Masaoki Goto (Takasago, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool set for manufacturing adhesive patches, by processing laminate...