US Patent Issued to Syntegon Packaging Systems on May 6 for "Handling device and method for handling products, in particular food, being conveyed by means of a transport device" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,916, issued on May 6, was assigned to Syntegon Packaging Systems AG (Beringen, Switzerland).

"Handling device and method for handling products, in particular food, being conveyed by means of a transport device" was invented by Alfred Wipf (Jestetten, Germany), Markus Wehrli (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) and Philipp Kathan (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handling device for handling products that are conveyed by a transport device, the handling device including at least one handling unit having a plurality of movably supported movement carriages, and a plurality of handling elements that are embodied as vacuu...