ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,203, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.P.A. (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).

"Apparatus for inserting spouted pouches in rectilinear loading profiles" was invented by Filippo Furlotti (Frazione Cazzola, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for inserting spouted pouches in rectilinear loading profiles, comprising: a pouch feeding station with at least one pouch feeder; a station for loading profiles which are longitudinally parallel to the feeding direction and superimposed; an accumulation station, which is interposed between the feeding station and the loading station and comprises a...