US Patent Issued to Wacker Chemie on May 6 for "Method and system for automatically packaging comminuted silicon" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,367, issued on May 6, was assigned to Wacker Chemie AG (Munich).

"Method and system for automatically packaging comminuted silicon" was invented by Werner Lazarus (Mitterskirchen, Germany) and Julian Garagnon (Burghausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automatic packing of comminuted silicon includes providing an inner bag in a first shaping vessel, spreading out an opening of the inner bag and positioning the opening above a lip of a first filling funnel of a filling unit, and filling the inner bag with comminuted silicon. The comminuted silicon passes through the filling funnel into the inner bag. The inner bag ...