US Patent Issued to Hinterkopf on Aug. 12 for "Printing process for a metal container and printer for printing on a metal container" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,184, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hinterkopf GmbH (Eislingen/Fils, Germany).

"Printing process for a metal container and printer for printing on a metal container" was invented by Joachim Weber (Bad Ditzenbach, Germany), Ulrich Oberacker (Eislingen, Germany), Joachim Schulz (Deggingen, Germany), Tobias Mayer (Esslingen, Germany) and Philipp Steiner (Deggingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing process for a metal container includes the steps: Heating the metal container, in particular formed as a metal bottle ready for filling, to a pre-treatment temperature lying in an interval between 100 degrees Celsius and 2...