ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,682, issued on May 20, was assigned to TECNO PACK S.P.A. (Schio, Italy).

"Horizontal packaging machine with adjustable cut-sew group" was invented by Corrado Pozzer (Schio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A horizontal packaging machine for packaging a product fed in a horizontal direction comprising a control panel and a cut-sew group to make on a packaging film transverse welds and a cut to close and separate from each other two successive packs. The cut-sew group comprises a plurality of cut and sew tools to make said transverse welds and the cut. The transverse welds define the edges of the packs according to different packag...