ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,718, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GASTI Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH (Germany).
"Rotary-machine type device for filling a filling medium into a multiplicity of containers" was invented by Berthold Burgmeier (Dillingen, Germany), Bastian Krogner (Vellberg, Germany) and Achim Stiegler (Crailsheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary-machine type device for filling a filling medium, in particular a food, into a multiplicity of containers. The device includes a drive unit, a multiplicity of container receptacles, which are each designed for receiving a container and are rotatable about a vertical axis V by the drive unit, ...