US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for measuring tension distribution in webs of roll-to-roll processes" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,391, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Systems and methods for measuring tension distribution in webs of roll-to-roll processes" was invented by Dan Feng (Anhui, China), Ryan Wagner (Lafayette, Ind.) and Arvind Raman (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for measuring web tension distribution in roll-to-roll processes, for example, such as R2R processes employed in the fabrication of printed devices. Such systems and methods entail a web that travels between first and second rollers in a longitudinal direction of the web, inducing tension in the...