ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,255, issued on March 25, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).
"Apparatus and method for producing plastic bottles" was invented by Christoph Klenk (Wenzenbach, Germany) and Wolfgang Hausladen (Moetzing, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for producing plastic bottles. An apparatus for producing plastic bottles includes a molding machine to manufacture preforms for plastic bottles. The apparatus also includes a blow molding machine to receive the preforms from the molding machine and to stretch blow mold the preforms into bottles. The apparatus also includes a labeling machine to receive the bot...