ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,840, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers with controlled reservoir pressure" was invented by Dominik Meier (Parsberg, Germany), Benedikt Hengl (Essing, Germany), Daniel Vogler (Neutraubling, Germany) and Markus Kulzer (Zell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers using at least one device for forming preforms into containers, wherein preforms are acted upon by a flowable and, in particular, gas-forming medium and are formed into the containers, wherein the preforms ...