US Patent Issued to Processing Technologies International on May 13 for "Method for handling components of a sheet extrusion system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,367, issued on May 13, was assigned to Processing Technologies International LLC (Aurora, Ill.).

"Method for handling components of a sheet extrusion system" was invented by Dana R. Hanson (St. Charles, Ill.) and Ryan E. Leopold (Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of handling components for a sheet extrusion system including the steps of: obtaining a carriage configured to support different components each making up a part of a sheet extrusion system; placing a first of the different components in a supported staging position on the carriage; and performing an operation on the first of the different components in th...