ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,616, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Syntegon Packaging Solutions B.V. (Weert, Netherlands).

"Method for operating a packaging machine and a packaging machine" was invented by Roger Smeets (Posterholt, Netherlands) and Tom Kok (Weert, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for operating a packaging machine, in particular a form, fill and seal machine, wherein in at least one method step the packaging machine processes a film material (14) for packing a product according to at least one processing instruction, wherein the at least one processing instruction is derived from a user input via an interface device (16) of the...