ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,001, issued on May 13, was assigned to TAKAZONO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Packaging device, wound body, core tube, method for manufacturing wound body, and wound material" was invented by Kazuo Iimori (Hirakata, Japan) and Yoshihiro Yamamoto (Hirakata, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Time required for initial operation and operation immediately after wound body replacement is shortened. A packaging device packages an object to be packaged using a wound body. An elongated sheet-shaped packaging material is wound into the wound body. The wound body includes a recording medium that stores information. The information recorded in the r...