US Patent Issued to T.M.C. on June 3 for "Machine for packaging groups of tissue products and method for checking the conformity of layers of groups of tissue products" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,459, issued on June 3, was assigned to T.M.C. S.P.A. (Castel Guelfo, Italy).

"Machine for packaging groups of tissue products and method for checking the conformity of layers of groups of tissue products" was invented by Gianfranco Loperfido (Lugo, Italy), Roberto Ponti (Faenza, Italy) and William Rossi (San Giorgio di Piano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine for packaging groups of tissue products includes a dosing element with a plurality of passageways, each for receiving a row formed by a predetermined number of products for defining a layer of a group of products. A detection device associated with the dosing element...