ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,440, issued on June 17, was assigned to S.E.M. Servizi Editoriali Milano S.P.A..

"Printed book production plant with digital technologies with one or more book block forming stations and one or more cover binding machines and related method" was invented by Giovanni Antonuzzo (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production plant (22) for books (23) printed with digital technologies, comprising one or more forming stations (26) of book blocks (32), one or more cover binding machines (27) for assembling the book blocks with respective covers (33), an electronic center (29) and a plurality of spiral towers (39) for accommodating the ...