US Patent Issued to Harro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschinen on Sept. 16 for "Transfer device for a capsule and capsule filling machine having a transfer device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,900, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Harro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH (Allmersbach im Tal, Germany).

"Transfer device for a capsule and capsule filling machine having a transfer device" was invented by Florian Huhnen (Allmersbach im Tal, Germany), Steffen Gall (Allmersbach im Tal, Germany), Jonathan Cocks (Allmersbach im Tal, Germany) and Reiner Wurst (Allmersbach im Tal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a transfer device of a capsule filling machine for transferring at least one capsule from a capsule receptacle of a capsule segment to a downstream process station, and to a capsule filli...