ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,114, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUADIENT TECHNOLOGIES FRANCE (Bagneux, France).
"Method and device for packaging articles" was invented by Laurent Farlotti (Arcueil, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for automated packaging of articles, comprising a conveyor for feeding and transporting into the device a blank of corrugated cardboard, a pair of crease wheels for creating two longitudinal crease lines in the blank, a transversal blade or score applicator for successively creating four transversal crease lines in the blank as the blank is transported into the device, and opposite pressing members such as jaws of a p...