ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,460, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to G.D S.P.A. (Bologna, Italy).

"Coupling unit and coupling method for coupling a component to a container and apparatus for producing articles correlated thereto" was invented by Andrea Biondi (Bologna, Italy), Luca Cavazza (Bologna, Italy), Umberto Zanetti (Bologna, Italy), Enrico Campagnoli (Bologna, Italy), Antonio Gigante (Bologna, Italy), Giacomo Noferini (Bologna, Italy), Cristian Dakessian (Bologna, Italy), Gianluca Parisini (Bologna, Italy) and Marco Fiorentini (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling unit for coupling a component for a container includes a coupling equip...