ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,561, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to McLaren Automotive Ltd. (Woking, Great Britain).
"Tape deposition head" was invented by Claudio Santoni (Woking, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape deposition head for applying lengths of tape to a deposition surface, the tape deposition head comprising: a tape cutter having a tape inlet and a tape outlet, the tape cutter comprising: a feed roller configured to drive the tape though the tape cutter from the tape inlet to the tape outlet along a tape path; a nip roller acting against the feed roller to press the tape against the feed roller; and a tape slicer, the tape slicer havi...