US Patent Issued to Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller on Oct. 28 for "Method of operating a packaging line and packaging line suitable therefor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,380, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller SE & Co. KG (Wolfertschwenden, Germany).

"Method of operating a packaging line and packaging line suitable therefor" was invented by Daniel Gropper (Illertissen, Germany) and Pascal Schilling (Leutkirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to avoid a decrease of cycle frequency of a packaging machine within a packaging line caused by a previous interruption of a slicer's on-slice operation, e.g. during its loading, special residual buffers for additional buffering of portions compared to normal operation may be released by a controller shortly before the ...