ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,492, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Saurer Technologies GmbH & Co. KG (Krefeld, Germany).

"Workstation of a two-for-one twisting or cabling machine for the production of carpet yarn" was invented by Helmut Leksa (Lake Wylie, S.C.) and Georg Tetzlaff (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Workstation of a two-for-one twisting or cabling machine for production of carpet yarn, including winding device having package cradle with two frame arms for rotatable mounting of an empty tube or twisting package, package drive roller for frictionally driving twisting package, yarn traversing device for traversing transfer of a yarn to...