ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,476, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Binding machine" was invented by Makoto Kosuge (Tokyo), Shingo Takahashi (Tokyo) and Terufumi Hamano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binding machine includes: a rotation shaft driven by a motor to rotate; a movable body that moves in an axial direction of the rotation shaft in conjunction with the rotation of the rotation shaft and that rotates about the rotation shaft; an elastic body that is compressed by the movement of the movable body along the axial direction of the rotation shaft and that is configured to apply tension to a wire adapted to bind an object to b...