US Patent Issued to Douglas Machine on Aug. 12 for "System and process for forming retained container groups from arrayed container groups" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,579, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Douglas Machine Inc. (Alexandria, Minn.).

"System and process for forming retained container groups from arrayed container groups" was invented by Aaron M. Frederick (Alexandria, Minn.), Kasey W. Dillon (Alexandria, Minn.), Rick W. Lukanen Jr. (Alexandria, Minn.), Craig Sholts (Alexandria, Minn.), Jeffery L. Lenarz (Garfield, Minn.), Matthew R. Crissinger (Nelson, Minn.), Andrew J. Bye (Alexandria, Minn.) and Eric A. Timmerman (Alexandria, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for forming retained container groups from an arrayed container group (ACG) via application of an adapted retai...