ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,111, issued on June 30.

"Closing machine for closing sausage products" was invented by Sagar Lorenzo Noguera (Mataro, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closing machine for closing sausage products that has a gripper mechanism, a separator mechanism and a stapler mechanism, where at least the stapler mechanism can be driven independently but in coordination with the gripper and separator mechanisms during a cycle of the machine when operating in production mode (P1 to P4) in which the gripper, separator and stapler mechanisms each adopt the same position at the beginning and at the end of the cycle. The machine further comprises ...