ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,258, issued on April 29, was assigned to SASIB S.P.A. (Castel Maggiore, Italy).

"Packer machine for the production of pouches each containing a portion of a loose product" was invented by Roberto Ghiotti (Castel Maggiore, Italy) and Sandro Baletti (Castel Maggiore, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packer machine for producing of pouches containing loose product, includes a conveyor device to move a band of wrapping material along a packing path; a wrapping station arranged along the path at which the band of wrapping material is wrapped to form a tubular wrap; a longitudinal sealing unit to seal the wrap in an overlapping sectio...