ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,610, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ZUIKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Apparatus and method for ultrasonic welding" was invented by Takashi Arima (Osaka, Japan) and Masato Hiroyasu (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control is performed to drive a horn via an ultrasonic wave generator so as to apply ultrasonic energy to a web in one of an outward path and a return path of an anvil and not to apply ultrasonic energy to the web in the other one of the outward path and the return path."
The patent was filed on Oct. 12, 2021, under Application No. 18/033,594.
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