ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,416, issued on April 22, was assigned to Saurer Intelligent Technology AG (Arbon, Switzerland).
"Spinning station of an air-jet spinning machine and method for carrying out a piecing process at such a spinning station" was invented by Heinz-Josef Peuker (Wegberg, Germany), Martin Reszat (Lunen, Germany), Dirk Schiffers (Korschenbroich, Germany) and Sarah Meissner (Geilenkirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spinning station of a spinning machine for producing a thread from a sliver. A thread end is taken up by a take-up device and transferred to a preparation device downstream from a vortex chamber of the spinning device, ...