ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,711, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AMTS Co. Ltd. (Gotemba, Japan) and ALTEMIRA Can Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Capping head body, capping head, spindle assembly, capping device, and capping system" was invented by Takafumi Sato (Yokohama, Japan), Eiji Yamamoto (Yokohama, Japan) and Hideyasu Muto (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The capping head body is a body of a capping head used for the capping head that attaches a cap having a topped cylindrical shape to a mouthpiece portion of a can having a bottomed cylindrical shape, the capping head body including: a body main portion having a cylindrical shape; a spindle attachmen...