ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,247, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to P.F.M. S.p.A. (Torrebelvicino, Italy).

"Packaging movement assembly for an automatic packaging machine and method thereof" was invented by Andrea Fioravanti (Torrebelvicino, Italy) and Marco Giovanni Pierantoni (Torrebelvicino, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package movement assembly for an automatic packaging machine comprises a first trolley and a second trolley placed side by side and slidably movable along a packaging direction; a first gripping device and a second gripping device facing each other and between which a package to be moved can be positioned. The first gripping device ...