ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,342, issued on June 24, was assigned to PAPACKS SALES GMBH (Cologne, Germany).

"Method for coating products" was invented by Tahsin Dag (Cologne, Germany), Florian Barth (Cologne, Germany) and Memet Dag (Arnstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coating products is provided. The method includes the steps of applying a coating liquid to a product and removing excess coating liquid from the product. It is desirable to provide a method for efficiently and reliably coating delicate or easily deformable products, such as products molded from a pulp fiber slurry. The method includes fixing the product to a receiving por...