US Patent Issued to Krones on July 15 for "Method, application device, and packaging device for producing packaging units" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,668, issued on July 15, was assigned to Krones AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Method, application device, and packaging device for producing packaging units" was invented by Peter Haidacher (Kiefersfelden, Germany), Herbert Spindler (Niedermoosen, Germany), Marcus Kreis (Kolbermoor, Germany) and Florian Saumweber (Rosenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods and devices for producing packaging units. Each of the packaging units has at least two articles which are held together by at least one strapping band by at least one packaging blank. The method includes: providing the articles in a handling a...