ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,268, issued on July 15, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Laminating device" was invented by Ryuta Abe (Osaka, Japan), Yukihiro Maegawa (Osaka, Japan), Naoto Hosotani (Osaka, Japan) and Takahiro Kuhara (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminating device includes: a plurality of laminating heads that each holds a unit laminated body; a drum section in which the plurality of laminating heads are arranged, which holds each laminating head swingably via a support shaft, and which rotates to advance each laminating head to a laminating position facing a lamin...