ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,113, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Totani Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Bag making apparatus and bag making method" was invented by Yuji Ohnishi (Kyoto, Japan) and Toshiki Nagasawa (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "First and second panel webs are superposed on each other and fed in their longitudinal direction. After a side gusset is temporarily fixed to the second panel web, the side gusset is divided by a dividing device to form a pair of open edges. The open edges are aligned with a line of weakness of the first panel web when the first and second panel webs are superposed on each other. The side gusset is temporarily sea...