ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,187, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SIG SERVICES AG (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Impulse heat sealing of a heat-sealable film material" was invented by Laurens Last (SX Tilburg, Netherlands), Johannes Wilhelmus Van Tuil (Barcelona, Spain), Jordi Canada Codina (Barcelona, Spain), Jordi Vidal Camps (Barcelona, Spain), Juan Rojas Segura (Barcelona, Spain) and Abel Saez Lopez (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing station configured to heat seal a wall made from heat-sealable film material, preferably metal-free heat-sealable film material, onto one another wall of heat-sealable material, e.g. another...