US Patent Issued to Lantech.com on July 15 for "Stretch wrapping machine with packaging material tail treatment" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,730, issued on July 15, was assigned to Lantech.com LLC (Louisville, Ky.).

"Stretch wrapping machine with packaging material tail treatment" was invented by Patrick R. Lancaster III (Louisville, Ky.) and Jean-Louis Limousin (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and program product utilize pressurized fluid flow from a position generally upstream of a free end of a packaging material tail and at an acute angle relative to the side of a load while the free end of the packaging material tail is unsupported and/or utilize pressurized fluid flow in two or more directions and from two or more positions to assi...