US Patent Issued to Harro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschinen on Dec. 9 for "Capsule filling machine and method for operating a capsule filling machine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,136, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Harro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH (Allmersbach im Tal, Germany).

"Capsule filling machine and method for operating a capsule filling machine" was invented by Timo Kuehnert (Allmersbach im Tal, Germany) and Florian Huhnen (Allmersbach im Tal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The capsule filling machine includes a turntable with capsule segments, at least one insertion station and at least one filling station. The capsule filling machine further includes at least one test container and a container weighing station with a weighing cell for weighing the test container. In a regular oper...