US Patent Issued to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance on Sept. 30 for "System and method for controlling a flow regulating valve in a filling machine" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,178, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).

"System and method for controlling a flow regulating valve in a filling machine" was invented by Federica Villani (Formigine, Italy) and Nicola Garuti (Scandiano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a flow regulating valve (6) of a filling machine (1), controlling the flow of pourable food product, envisages: receiving an inlet pressure measurement (PIN) from a pressure sensor (14); receiving an inlet flow measurement (FIN) from a flow meter (16); determining a control signal (Sc) for controlling an operating ...