ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,544, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to manroland Goss web systems GmbH (Augsburg, Germany).

"Folding apparatus of an offset web-fed printing press and offset web-fed printing press" was invented by Theo Keilhau (NeusaB, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A folding apparatus of an offset web-fed printing press includes a first transport means formed as belt conveyor system for a web-shaped printing material and configured such that belts thereof can be driven at a speed, which corresponds to the speed of the printing material, and a first cutting means arranged in the region of the first transport means configured such that it ...