US Patent Issued to STC Spinnzwirn on July 15 for "Method and device for producing at least one PLA strip" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,206, issued on July 15, was assigned to STC Spinnzwirn GmbH (Chemnitz, Germany).

"Method and device for producing at least one PLA strip" was invented by Kenneth Schindler (Chemnitz, Germany), Bert Woellner (Oberlungwitz, Germany), Daniel Gotze (Chemnitz, Germany), Torsten Muller (Chemnitz, Germany) and Jens Weinhold (Chemnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for producing at least one PLA tape includes a heating device for heating a tapelike extruded PLA film. The apparatus further includes a slitting device for slitting the PLA film heated by means of the heating device into the at least one PLA tape. The appara...