ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,041, issued on June 3, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Laminating device" was invented by Ryuta Abe (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Masada (Hyogo, Japan) and Masahide Maruyama (Nara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminating device is adapted to laminate a plurality of sheet members on a lamination stage and includes: a plurality of laminating heads2 that each has a curved holding surface; a drum section in which the plurality of laminating heads are arranged, the drum section holding each laminating head, and rotation of the drum section causing each laminating head to advance to a...