ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,759, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV S.A. (Brussels).

"Packaging system for assembling a package" was invented by Wim Dekocker (Leuven, Belgium), Annalisa Narducci (Leuven, Belgium), Keenan Thompson (Leuven, Belgium), Glenn Ferreira (Leuven, Belgium) and Philippe Jean Marie Duperray (Chateauroux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaging system has a system for assembling a package, a method for assembling a package, and a machine for assembling a package. The packaging system comprises at least one main transportation unit and at least one moveable closed loop transportation unit, where the at least one...