ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,210, issued on April 15, was assigned to SOLO GELATO LTD. (Hila, Israel).

"Unit for treating used food packages" was invented by Barak Beth Halachmi (Hila, Israel) and Ben Sagi (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns units for treating used food packages, more specifically for separation and compactization of used capsules containing edible ingredients residues, such that the units are configured to receive and compact a stack of used food packages, as well as separate food substance residues from the packages during such compaction."

The patent was filed on Feb. 28, 2023, under Application N...