ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,642, issued on March 11, was assigned to Pre-Pack Inc. (Narragansett, R.I.).
"Apparatus, system and method for filling bat pipes" was invented by Austin Davis (Narragansett, R.I.) and Jeffrey LeBlanc (East Greenwich, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an apparatus and method for speed filling of a containers, such as bat pipes, that reside in a shipping container. A filling tray includes holes that align with top open ends of the bat pipes. A frame on the filling tray aligns the top open ends of the bat pipes. Smokable plant matter is spread onto the top surface of the filling tray to introduce the sm...