ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,167, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Espera-Werke GmbH (Duisburg, Germany).

"Method for operating a labelling system" was invented by Winfried Vicktorius (Duisburg, Germany), Peter Wolff (Swisttal-Heimerzheim, Germany) and Ronnie Beckers (Lummen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for operating a labelling system for labelling individual packages, wherein the labelling system comprises a labelling device (1) having functional units and a control assembly (11) which, in a labelling routine, controls the functional units in accordance with a control specification. According to the invention, a u...