ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,155, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GRUPPO BERTOLASO S.P.A. (Zimella, Italy).

"Plant for bottling containers with liquids and method for operating said plant" was invented by Giovanni Mazzon (Lobia di San Bonifacio, Italy), Diego Zecchinato (Sossano, Italy) and Walter Berto (Montagnana, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bottling plant comprising a first transport system which moves containers through different machines, and a storage apparatus, which comprises a storage unit, a second transport system which extracts the containers from the first transport system to feed the storage unit, and a third transport system which picks ...