ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,564, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CONCETTI S.P.A. (Bastia, Italy).

"Method and apparatus for filling bags with a quantity of deaerated product by means of a deaerator inserted in the product" was invented by Teodoro Concetti (Bastia, Italy), Emanuele Concetti (Bastia, Italy) and Gianni Ceccacci (Bastia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for filling bags with bulk products includes providing a quantity of product for filling a bag, dispensing the quantity of product through a connection duct towards a filling station provided with designed to fill a bag with the product, and filling the bag with the quantity of produ...