US Patent Issued to GEA FOOD SOLUTIONS WEERT on Dec. 30 for "Vertical flow-wrapper, bag with a segment of a re-closure means and method to produce re-closable bag" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,255, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GEA FOOD SOLUTIONS WEERT B.V. (Rv Weert, Netherlands).

"Vertical flow-wrapper, bag with a segment of a re-closure means and method to produce re-closable bag" was invented by Bruno Gerfried Baumeister (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical flow-wrapper with a form-fill-tube along which a film is transported in a transport direction and formed into a tube, a longitudinal-sealing means, which seals two opposing longitudinal ends of the formed film together to a longitudinal seal, and a cross-sealing means and a cutting means which provide cross seals to each package and separa...