ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,971, issued on April 1, was assigned to COASTAL COUNTING & INDUSTRIAL SCALE COMPANY INC. (Santa Paula, Calif.).

"System and method for a product packaging assembly" was invented by John Dishion (Santa Paula, Calif.), Jason Satnick (Santa Paula, Calif.), Christopher Dawley (Santa Paula, Calif.), Roberto Santos (Santa Paula, Calif.) and Hasala Senevirathne (Santa Paula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology includes a method of packaging a product using a packaging system. The packaging system includes at least one weigh bucket, at least one sorting apparatus, at least one reject funnel, at least one accept fun...