ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,236, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Norafin Technologies GmbH (Mildenau, Germany).
"Apparatus for bonding a fiber structure" was invented by Marc Jolly (Mildenau, Germany), Andre Lang (Sehmatal-Cranzahl, Germany) and Anton Peter (Sechmatal-Cranzahl, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for bonding a fiber structure (2) by means of a fluid (3), comprising a fluid jet head (9) having a nozzle (20) for discharging the fluid (3), a manipulator (4), and a fiber receptacle (25) for arranging the fiber structure (2), wherein the fluid jet head (9) is arranged as an effector (8) on the manipula...