ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,112, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).
"Filling machine package waste management" was invented by Magnus Meijer (Malmo, Sweden), Mattias Darmell (Malmo, Sweden) and Jimmy Liljenberg (Skurup, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus, including computer program products for package waste management in a filling machine. A waste event is detected during operation of the filling machine. The waste event is associated with a waste event detection point in the filling machine and a corresponding web segment position of the packaging material. One or more filled p...