US Patent Issued to Papeltec Overseas on April 22 for "Method and apparatus for a transfer tape applied to form a raised profile" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,973, issued on April 22, was assigned to Papeltec Overseas Inc. (Atlantic Beach, Fla.).

"Method and apparatus for a transfer tape applied to form a raised profile" was invented by Craig Austin (Jacksonville, Fla.), Peter Rodriguez (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Jason Rodriguez (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to form elevated profiles in mounted turn-up transfer tapes for paper processing. In some embodiments, the transfer tape may be a combination of a tape substrate coated on one side with a web grabbing adhesive and on the other side with a mounting adhesive and an affixed cord or cordlike feature,...