ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,687, issued on May 20, was assigned to Espera-Werke GmbH (Duisburg, Germany).
"Method for operating a labelling system" was invented by Ronnie Beckers (Lummen, Belgium), Winfried Vicktorius (Duisburg, Germany) and Peter Wolff (Swisstal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for operating a labelling system which comprises a labelling device (1) having a feed assembly (2), a dispensing assembly (4) and an application assembly (6); wherein at least one of these functional units comprises a sensor assembly (8, 9, 10); wherein, in a labelling routine, a control assembly (11) activates the functional uni...