US Patent Issued to LiquiForm Group on Sept. 9 for "Container preform and forming/filling nozzle each configured to provide a seal therebetween" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,599, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LiquiForm Group LLC (Saline, Mich.).

"Container preform and forming/filling nozzle each configured to provide a seal therebetween" was invented by Gregory Carpenter (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kirk Edward Maki (Tecumseh, Mich.) and Jonathan McGurk (Toledo, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for simultaneously forming a container and filling the container with a product. The system includes a thermoplastic preform and a nozzle. The preform is configured to be molded into the container. The nozzle is for a forming/filling head configured to inject the product into the preform sealed to the noz...