US Patent Issued to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS on Oct. 7 for "Method for automatically verifying the presence of members for holding preforms in a heating station" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,425, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).

"Method for automatically verifying the presence of members for holding preforms in a heating station" was invented by Loic Bourvellec (Octeville-sur-Mer, France) and Herve Pasquier (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for verifying holding members in a heating station equipped with a device for transporting the preforms. The device includes a plurality of movable supports circulating in a closed circuit and members for individually holding the preforms by their neck, where each of the holding members is b...