US Patent Issued to Dai Nippon Printing on Oct. 21 for "Aseptic filling method and aseptic filling machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,267, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Aseptic filling method and aseptic filling machine" was invented by Atsushi Hayakawa (Tokyo) and Yoshinori Satou (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preform is heated, the heated preform is sealed in a sealing apparatus including a neck portion mold, a trunk portion mold and a bottom portion mold at a predetermined temperature range, and the heated preform sealed in the molds is blow-molded into a bottle. Any molded bottle is removed if the mold surface temperature of the neck portion mold, the trunk portion mold and the bottom portion mold are outside...