ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,161, issued on March 25, was assigned to ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & Co. KG (Biberach, Germany).
"Filling flow divider" was invented by Daniel Teufel (Schemmerhofen, Germany) and Steffen Meinel (Biberach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a filling flow divider for food products and to a method for discharging food products and a filling machine, wherein the filling flow divider has an inlet via which an inflowing mass flow can be divided into a plurality of partial mass flows, transported further in a plurality of partial lines and discharged portion-wise onto or into an object via their ou...