US Patent Issued to Processing Technologies International on July 15 for "Method and apparatus for handling a die unit for a sheet extrusion system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,201, issued on July 15, was assigned to Processing Technologies International LLC (Aurora, Ill.).

"Method and apparatus for handling a die unit for a sheet extrusion system" was invented by Mitchell L. Gritzner (Montgomery, Ill.), Ryan E. Leopold (Aurora, Ill.), Donovan Petry (Plano, Ill.) and Dana R. Hanson (St. Charles, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of, and apparatus for, handling a first die unit usable on a sheet extrusion system. The method includes the steps of: obtaining a carriage; placing the first die unit in a supported staging position on the carriage, the carriage configured so that with the first die unit...