ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,091, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to tesa SE (Norderstedt, Germany).

"Application device having a helix feed, robot device and production system" was invented by Deniz Nick Akin (Hamburg, Germany), Thomas Gerdsmann (Hamburg, Germany), Peter Himmelsbach (Buxtehude, Germany), Marten Rohde (Bienenbuttel, Germany) and Tristan Wienzek (Barsbuttel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application apparatus that includes: a base unit comprising a first end, a second end, and a connection device that extends along a base unit axis from the first end to the second end; an application unit securely coupled to the second end, wherein the ...