ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,631, issued on May 27.
"Assembly and method for the automated folding of corners of a box" was invented by Luca Nicolini (Modena, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for the automated folding of the corners of a box made of a relatively rigid laminar material, such as paper or cardboard, the box having a bottom wall, an upper wall, and two pairs of side walls, at least two walls having at least one tab to be folded to form a corner of the box, includes a first folding device to fold a first tab of at least one of the side walls along a first creasing edge, a second folding device to fold a second tab of at least one of t...