ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,349, issued on July 8, was assigned to SIGNODE INDUSTRIAL GROUP LLC (Tampa, Fla.).
"Strapping tool" was invented by Mirco Neeser (Ehrendingen, Switzerland), Kurt Bolliger (Ehrendingen, Switzerland) and Andreas Keller (Birr, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping tool configured to tension metal strap around a load and, after tensioning, attach overlapping portions of the strap to one another by cutting notches into a seal element positioned around the overlapping portions of the strap and into the overlapping portions of the strap themselves."
The patent was filed ...