ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,489, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GEORG MENSHEN GMBH & Co. KG (Finnentrop, Germany).
"Pouring spout for a film bag" was invented by Marti Nogue I Arbusa (Barcelona, Spain), Carlos Almor Morujo (Barcelona, Spain) and Frank Roemer (Finnentrop, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pouring spout for a film bag includes a pouring channel having a channel wall which is a pouring nozzle on top and which is surrounded by a welding region on the bottom. The welding region has welding arms which extend to respective welding arm ends. The welding arms have rib elements attached to the channel wall and are axially spaced apart from eac...