US Patent Issued to Muehlbauer on Nov. 25 for "Apparatuses and methods for operating at least two tools" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,264, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Muehlbauer GmbH & Co. KG (Roding, Germany).

"Apparatuses and methods for operating at least two tools" was invented by Marcel Freimuth (Drachselried, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for operating at least two tools in a first and at least a second processing area, wherein in each processing area a number of machining locations is assigned to the tool by which first components carried by a component web are conveyed along a track through the first and the at least second processing area, wherein the total number of tools in the apparatus is less than the number of ...