US Patent Issued to Lantech.com on March 25 for "Load wrapping apparatus and method utilizing packaging material with recycled content" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,154, issued on March 25, was assigned to Lantech.com LLC (Louisville, Ky.).

"Load wrapping apparatus and method utilizing packaging material with recycled content" was invented by Patrick R. Lancaster III (Louisville, Ky.) and Christian Michael Gruner (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and program product may utilize various approaches for adapting stretch wrapping to accommodate lower quality packaging materials such as packaging materials including recycled content, including heating a web of packaging material prior to or during pre-stretching, utilizing multiple pre-stretch zones and/or reducing ...