ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,188, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).
"Apparatus and method for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers" was invented by Florian Geltinger (Donaustauf, Germany), Norbert Kindl (Tegernheim, Germany) and Martin Schlagenhaufer (Regensburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, having a transport device which transports the plastic preforms along a predetermined transport path. The transport device has a movable and in particular rotatable transport carrier on which a plurality of forming stations is arranged. The forming stati...