ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,727, issued on April 8, was assigned to KRONES AG (Germany).

"System and method for operating a system for producing filled plastic containers from sterile plastic preforms" was invented by Christian Wittmann (Hemau, Germany) and Michael Peter (Siegenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for producing filled plastic containers from sterilized plastic preforms, includes a transport device for transporting the plastic preforms and plastic containers produced from the plastic preforms by forming, along a predetermined transport path through the system, a forming apparatus for forming the sterilized plastic preforms into ...