ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,868, issued on March 18, was assigned to G.MONDINI S.P.A. (Cologne, Italy).
"Apparatus for making containers which comprise a supporting skeleton and a layer of thermoformable material coupled to the supporting skeleton" was invented by Giovanni Mondini (Cologne, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for making containers (2) comprising a rotor (6) rotatably mounted on a supporting structure (5), a thermoforming device (7) comprising a supporting unit (11) mounted on the rotor (6) and a closing unit (12) which is stationary relative to the rotation of the rotor (6), a feeding device (8) for feeding to the supporting unit...