ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,329, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier-und Wellpappenwerke & Co. (Bielefeld, Germany).

"Drive mechanism for a packaging material web coiler, packaging material coiler, coiled packaging material cushion, and device for manufacturing the same" was invented by Bastian Schalk (Detmold, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive mechanism for a packaging material web coiler for forming a wound-up packaging material cushion may include a coiler core and a rotatable gyrating mass coupled to the coiler core. The coiled packaging material web is coilable around the coiler core such that the coiled packagi...