ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,515, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for coating containers" was invented by Sven Fischer (Regensburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for coating containers, and in particular beverage containers which are suitable and intended to receive a liquid, wherein the container to be coated has a main body, a shoulder region, a base region and a mouth region, wherein for coating of an inner wall and/or an outer wall of the container a silicon-containing coating material is produced from a flowable precursor, which is applied to the inner wall and/or the ...