ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,664, issued on July 15, was assigned to ISHIDA EUROPE Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).
"System and method for sealing containers" was invented by David Morgan (Bournemouth, Great Britain) and Ben Hall (Poole, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container has a product in a product-receiving area and has a sealing area surrounding the product-receiving area. A length of film is arranged over the container. A space above the film is evacuated using an evacuating portion of an upper sealing module arranged over the film, so as to cause a portion of the film to conform to the upper sealing module. An area of the film is cut o...