US Patent Issued to Luca Toncelli on July 8 for "Method, robot island apparatus for manufacturing slabs made of conglomerate of stone and/or ceramic material with veined effect" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,859, issued on July 8, was assigned to Luca Toncelli (Bassano del Grappa, Italy).

"Method, robot island apparatus for manufacturing slabs made of conglomerate of stone and/or ceramic material with veined effect" was invented by Luca Toncelli (Bassano del Grappa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for manufacturing automatically slabs of conglomerate stone and/or ceramic material with a veined effect from a base mix (M), which method comprises a step of a) depositing a layer of base mix (M) inside a temporary support (S), (b) automatically forming on the layer of base mix (M) at least one plurality of grooves (F) of predetermi...