ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,546, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"High speed filling of a tray" was invented by Henri Theo Leonie Ruers (Antwerp, Belgium) and Andrea Ziantoni Liberatori (La Hulpe, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for packaging a product. The product is dispensed into a tray by a dispensing system while the tray is moving beneath the dispensing system. The dispensing system includes a hopper that releases products that are funneled in the tray. The dispensing system includes two legs that each rotate about a respective pivot that constrain the product as the product is transported from th...