ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,207, issued on July 29, was assigned to Boomerang Water LLC (Davidson, N.C.).
"Cleaning, filling, and capping containers" was invented by Jason Dibble (Cornelius, N.C.), Marc Haydt (Lehighton, Pa.) and Zach Hilton (Belmont, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for filling and sealing a container can include a housing having an opening for receiving containers, a rotary assembly including mount assemblies disposed in the housing, the rotary assembly operable to rotate the of mount assemblies about a central axis, a washing station, a filling station, a steam injector, and cap setter disposed in the housing."
The pa...