ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,593, issued on April 22, was assigned to Muhlbauer GmbH & Co. KG (Roding, Germany).
"Device and method for processing documents" was invented by Hubert Dabrowski (Chemnitz, Germany) and Andy Gunther (Steinbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for processing a document includes a processing device for providing a document to be processed with information when this is in an effective range of the processing device with information; and a traversing device with a document carrier device that can be traversed along a trajectory. The traversing device is configured to receive a document to be processed at a transfer positio...