ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,902, issued on July 8, was assigned to Totani Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Bag making method and bag making apparatus" was invented by Yuji Ohnishi (Kyoto, Japan) and Toshiki Nagasawa (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The product efficiency of bags each with an end face part is increased. A panel webs is guided to be divided along a line of weakness of the panel web and to be folded along division edges of the panel web. This guiding of the first panel and temporary sealed sections cause a side gusset to be cut open along a line of weakness of the side gusset such that open surfaces are formed. After the forming of the open surfa...