ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,971, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Windmoller & Holscher KG (Lengerich, Germany).

"Apparatus for the production of inline stretched tubular foils by blowing process" was invented by Markus Bussmann (Lengerich, Germany), Karsten Golubski (Lengerich, Germany), Henning Voss (Lengerich, Germany) and Manuel Sollert (Lengerich, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus for producing inline stretched tubular foils by the blowing process, having a blown foil system comprising an extruder, a blowing head, a cooling ring, a calibrating basket, a flat laying unit and a reversing turret haul-off, h...