US Patent Issued to I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche on March 11 for "Method, cutting device and apparatus particularly for manufacturing pouches with rounded corners" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,508, issued on March 11, was assigned to I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.P.A. (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).

"Method, cutting device and apparatus particularly for manufacturing pouches with rounded corners" was invented by Filippo Furlotti (Cazzola, Italy), Luca Catellani (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy) and Andrea Trevisan (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a cutting device and an apparatus wherein, at cusp-shaped recesses obtained by die cutting on a ribbon in order to obtain pouches with rounded corners, the ribbon is cut transversely by means of at least two strokes of a blade. A relative trans...