US Patent Issued to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS on April 29 for "Means of sterilizing the stretching means of a container molding device, and container manufacturing installation" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,899, issued on April 29, was assigned to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).

"Means of sterilizing the stretching means of a container molding device, and container manufacturing installation" was invented by Francois Quetel (Octeville-sur-Mer, France), Benjamin Yger (Octeville-sur-Mer, France) and Sandy Letellier (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an installation for manufacturing containers made of thermoplastic material, having a sterilizing mode and a production mode. The installation comprising a molding machine, a transfer means, and a decontamination device. ...