US Patent Issued to I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche on Aug. 5 for "Apparatus and method for forming a hermetic package for creamy products" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,024, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A. (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).

"Apparatus and method for forming a hermetic package for creamy products" was invented by Giuseppe Bortolazzi (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a package for creamy products including the following steps: the formation of a tray starting from a first piece of wrapping material in such a way as to form a base and a continuous perimeter edge perpendicular to the base; dosing a predetermined quantity of creamy product into the tray formed; forming a lid for closing the upper opening...