ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,422, issued on May 27, was assigned to VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Measuring roller for determining a characteristic of a strip-shaped material passed over the measuring roller, use of a measuring roller for determining a characteristic of a strip-shaped material passed over the measuring roller, and method for determining the position of a strip edge of a strip-shaped material" was invented by Julian Kremeyer (Hilden, Germany), Gert Mucke (Hilden, Germany), Marcus Neuer (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Hagen Krambeer (Juchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measuring roller for determining a proper...