ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,685, issued on May 20, was assigned to GEA FOOD SOLUTIONS WEERT B.V. (Rv Weert, Netherlands).

"Vertical flow-wrapper with improved corner folding" was invented by Bruno Gerfried Baumeister (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical flow-wrapper that includes a folding unit for forming at least one fold in a moving web, the folding unit includes at least two sets of folding means; a sealing station downstream from the folding unit for sealing the at least one fold; a web feed, which feeds the web via the folding unit and the sealing station to a form-shoulder and a form-fill tube, which form the web into a web-tube; lo...