ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,953, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH (Biedenkopf-Wallau, Germany).
"Line with freely programmable trays" was invented by Norbert Brunnquell (Altusried, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A line having a food processing apparatus and a packaging machine between which a placement and transport apparatus is provided that has a plurality of tablet trays on which food products are placed and with which the food products are transported towards the packaging machine, the tablet trays move in a contact-free manner along a closed transport surface; a method for producing packaged food slices using the l...