US Patent Issued to Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller on Oct. 14 for "Method for automatically maintaining a predetermined portion arrangement in a tray, packaging device suitable therefor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,504, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller SE & Co. KG (Wolfertschwenden, Germany).

"Method for automatically maintaining a predetermined portion arrangement in a tray, packaging device suitable therefor" was invented by Sven Regien (Ottobeuren, Germany), Markus Berchtold (Wolfertschwenden, Germany), Johann Woelfle (Oberguenzburg, Germany) and Albert Bumann (Groenenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to achieve that portions are visually appealing, i.e., centered, with uniform slice distance in a longitudinal direction and also not differing too much in a transverse direction and in particul...