ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,110, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to EZpack Co. Ltd. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Continuous horizontal packaging machine and package opening device thereof" was invented by Jui-Che Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Ai-Chen Ho-Yeh (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chun-Hsien Li (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package opening device of a continuous horizontal packaging machine includes upper and lower package opening units and a squeezing unit. The upper package opening unit includes two upper slide blocks, and two upper suction members respectively fixed to and driven by the upper slide blocks to relatively move in a transverse direction. The sq...