ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,118, issued on May 27, was assigned to MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmueller SE & Co. KG (Wolfertschwenden, Germany).
"Thermoforming packaging machine with transverse cutting station and method for operating a thermoforming packaging machine comprising a transverse cutting station" was invented by Bernd Hoepner (Kempten, Germany), Sebastian Sauter (Breitenbrunn, Germany) and Herbert Benischke (Memmingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a thermoforming machine comprising a transverse cutting station. The transverse cutting station has a punching device for separating one or more film sections from a lower film a...