US Patent Issued to KELLANOVA on July 1 for "Flat-bottom stand-up bag, vertical form, fill, and seal system and methodology for utilizing the same" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,429, issued on July 1, was assigned to KELLANOVA (Battle Creek, Mich.).

"Flat-bottom stand-up bag, vertical form, fill, and seal system and methodology for utilizing the same" was invented by John Joseph Michels (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical form fill and seal system supports a sheet of material having material segments and a tube sized for drawing edges of the elongated sheet of material together in an overlapping configuration to form the sheet into a substantially tube shape. The VFFS also includes a sealer that seals the edges of the material to one another and a gusseting mechanism sized for forming a ...