ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,451, issued on June 3, was assigned to H.G. Weber and Co. Inc. (Kiel, Wis.).

"Systems for packaging stacks of bags" was invented by Alex Christel (Kiel, Wis.), Ben Davidson (Kiel, Wis.), Pat Kiel (Kiel, Wis.) and Ryan Thiem (Kiel, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for end-folding a wrapping onto a stack of bags includes a folding machine having a first folding station and a second folding station. The first folding station configured to receive the stack of bags with the wrapping partially covering the stack of bags and defining wrapping flaps, and is further configured to end-fold one or more of the wrapping flaps of the w...