ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,547, issued on June 10, was assigned to TOPPAN Packaging Americas Holdings Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Seal and cut assembly for heat sealing machine" was invented by Marvin Levan (Steward, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat sealing machine and method form blister packages. A backing material web extends between a nesting tray assembly and a seal and cut tooling assembly and a blister tray is resident within a blister nest of the nesting tray assembly. The backing material web is clamped between a clamping gasket support shoulder of the nesting tray assembly and a clamping shoulder of the seal and cut tooling assembly, and betwe...