US Patent Issued to KRONES on Oct. 28 for "Method and apparatus for forming plastic preforms for plastic containers with curve evaluation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,092, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for forming plastic preforms for plastic containers with curve evaluation" was invented by Andreas Steiner (Wenzenbach, Germany), Thomas Gerstenberg (Regensburg, Germany), Philipp Olenberg (Regensburg, Germany), Simon Fischer (Regensburg, Germany) and Sebastian Kirchmayer (Geiselhoering, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, wherein a plastic preform is introduced into a blow mould and is expanded into a plastic container by being applied by a flowable medium, wherein the plast...