US Patent Issued to Krones on Oct. 21 for "Packaging device, packaging unit, and method for producing packaging units" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,191, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Krones AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Packaging device, packaging unit, and method for producing packaging units" was invented by Thomas Wimmer (Rosenheim, Germany), Marcus Kreis (Kolbermoor, Germany), Herbert Spindler (Niedermoosen, Germany), Johann Luber (Bad Feilnbach, Germany) and Thomas Hensel (Aying, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a method for producing packaging units and the produced packaging units, comprising at least two substantially similar articles, wherein the articles are held together by at least one packaging blank (14). A main surface of the pack...