ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,456, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TNA Australia Pty Ltd. (Lidcombe, Australia).
"Splice mechanism for a packaging assembly" was invented by Lawrence Roos (Sydney) and Kerryn Thomas Ball (Sydney).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A splice mechanism (100) for a packaging assembly (10), the packaging assembly (10) including: a former shoulder (12); a controller (14); a film drive (16) controlled by the controller (14) for feeding a film (112) at a film speed to the former shoulder (12) to form a tubular film (22) moving in a film direction (20); a sealing device (24) to seal the tubular film (22) in a first sealing direction (26), the...