ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,097, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).
"Cutting unit" was invented by Ulf Mossberg (Loddekopinge, Sweden) and Goran Hermodsson (Staffanstorp, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting unit for providing transversal cuts and/or perforations to a string of packaging containers connected by transversal seals is provided. The cutting unit comprises a knife assembly and an anvil assembly rotatable against each other to form a nip for receiving a transversal seal of the string of packaging containers. The anvil assembly comprises an anvil blade having a first region and a sec...