ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,151, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).
"Method for thermally conditioning preforms" was invented by Nicolas Chomel (Octeville-sur-Mer, France), Denis Souffes (Octeville-sur-Mer, France), Guy Feuilloley (Octeville-sur-Mer, France), Vincent Brachet (Octeville-sur-Mer, France) and Marc Mouchelet (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a thermal conditioning method of preforms. The method includes heating each preform by transport along a heating path exposed to heating radiation with a determined production rate; transporting the preforms (in line along a d...