ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,561, issued on July 22, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Threadlike adhesive sticking apparatus and method of sticking threadlike adhesive" was invented by Atsushi Takashima (Ibaraki, Japan), Tomohiro Taruno (Ibaraki, Japan) and Hiromitsu Morishita (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threadlike adhesive sticking apparatus of the present invention is an adhesive sticking apparatus that presses a threadlike adhesive wound around a winding body against an object while feeding out the threadlike adhesive, and includes an assist mechanism configured to apply an external force in a feeding direction to the ...