US Patent Issued to Southwire on Dec. 2 for "Device for modifying a linear substrate" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,448, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Southwire Co. LLC.

"Device for modifying a linear substrate" was invented by Juan Alberto Galindo Gonzalez (Powder Springs, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for modifying an aspect of an exterior polymer material or polymer type material of a linear substrate with a fluid. The apparatus include a variable exposure gap within which the linear substrate is exposed to the fluid. The width of the exposure gap is varied with the speed of the linear substrate traversing the exposure gap to maintain a constant exposure time of the linear substrate with the modifying fluid."

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