ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,717, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A. (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).

"Device and machine for forming boxes with internal partition wall and relative method" was invented by Daniele Andreoli (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy) and Michele Musillo (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A box forming device includes an internal partition wall including a positioning area to support a blank arriving from a magazine and positioned between a forming head movable along a rectilinear trajectory to intercept, in an operating position, a portion of the blank. A die receives the blank and ...