ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,845, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to MSK-Verpackungs-Systeme GmbH (Kleve, Germany).

"Device for welding two overlapping film sections situated on one side of goods stack to form wrapping" was invented by Michael Oymann (Xanten, Germany), Enrico Czok (Kleve, Germany) and Christian Mrowka (Drevenack, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is a device for welding two overlapping film sections situated on one side of a goods stack. The device includes a welding bar with a welding surface oriented in the direction of the film sections to be welded. The spacing between the welding bar and the film sections is reducible. Th...