US Patent Issued to G.D on March 4 for "Method and a machine for producing a package of smoking articles" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,649, issued on March 4, was assigned to G.D S.p.A. (Bologna, Italy).

"Method and a machine for producing a package of smoking articles" was invented by Alan Armeni (Bologna, Italy), Davide Parazza (Bologna, Italy) and Giuliano Gamberini (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a package of smoking articles having an ordered group of packets arranged in mutual contact, including: advancing the packets in a row and receiving one packet after another between a first and a second ring-shaped moving member, accumulating the packets between the moving members so as to extend the row of packets, without interrup...