ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,689, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Elopak ASA (Spikkestad, Norway).
"Filling machine and method of operating the same" was invented by Thiemo Scheerer (Linnich, Germany) and Christian Pringal (Krefeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filling machine (100) is disclosed having a processing unit (600) including a processing station (612, 614, 616) and a conveyor system (601) configured for conveying container precursors through processing station. The conveyor system has comprising a plurality of shuttles or carriers (602) configured for carrying the container precursors along a track (604) through the processing station and...