ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,746, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Poly-clip System GmbH & Co. KG (Hattersheim, Germany).
"Four clip clipping machine" was invented by Detlef Ebert (Bad Nauheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reconfiguring a clipping machine for producing sausage-shaped products from a first clipping mode to a second clipping mode, the method comprising the steps of: providing an input to a control unit of the clipping machine indicative of the reconfiguration of the clipping machine from the first clipping mode to the second clipping mode; and changing a number of closure clips, supplied to a closing unit of the clipping mac...