ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,513, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Pouch Pac Innovations LLC (Sarasota, Fla.).

"Machine for production of stand up pouches" was invented by R. Charles Murray (Sarasota, Fla.) and Olaf Clemens (Wipperfurth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine for the production of a stand up pouch from a web includes a film feed which moves the web at continuously at a constant speed through a punching station, a folding station, and a welding station. The welding station includes a pair of seal bars which are driven by a server motor at a speed equal to a speed of the web during the welding. The punch station includes at least one...