ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,029, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Krones AG (Neutraubling, Germany).
"Packaging system and method for feeding flat packaging materials to a packaging system" was invented by August Peutl (Woerth an der Donau, Germany) and Andreas Hack (Osterhofen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a packaging system (1) and to a method for using the same. The packaging system (1) comprises a packaging module (2), a first transport device (3) for feeding articles to the packaging module (2) in a first transport direction (TR1), and a second transport device (4) for feeding flat packaging materials (20) arranged in a f...