ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,382, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH (Biedenkopf-Wallau, Germany).
"Packaging machine with punch" was invented by Reiner Paul (Dautphetal-Elmshausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaging machine and method for producing a packaging with a packaging machine, in which a lower material web is unrolled from a supply roll and transported along the packaging machine and at the same time a material to be packaged is placed on the lower material web and, to complete the packaging, an upper film is sealed to the lower material web in a sealing station, the packaging is cut from the upper and lo...