ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,367, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to WUXI LEAD INTELLIGENT EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China).

"Roll replacing device and tab welding apparatus" was invented by Er Cao (Jiangsu, China) and Xiaofei Yang (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a roll replacing device and a tab welding apparatus. The roll replacing device includes an unwinding mechanism, a first fixing mechanism, a second fixing mechanism, a cutting mechanism, and a strip connection mechanism; wherein the first fixing mechanism is capable of following a sliding bracket to move along a first direction until a spare material...