ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,526, issued on June 3, was assigned to SYNTEGON PACKAGING SYSTEMS AG (Beringen, Switzerland).
"Horizontal forming device" was invented by Michael Lopes (Stockach, Germany), Maurizio Maj (Winterthur, Switzerland), Thomas Peter (Kloten, Switzerland) and Kai Brombach (Bonndorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A horizontal forming device, in particular for horizontal flow pack machines, comprises at least one, in particular roller-free, forming unit (12a12d), in particular a forming shoulder, which is configured for forming a packaging material web (14a), in particular a paper web, into a packaging material tube (16a), the forming ...