US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on March 17 for "Apparatuses and methods for loading containers with products" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,001, issued on March 17, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Apparatuses and methods for loading containers with products" was invented by Travis Martin Garthaffner (Midlothian, Va.), Tamika Murrell (Richmond, Va.) and Ahmet Ercelebi (Mechanicsville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one example embodiment relates to a system for filling a plurality of containers with oral products. The system comprises a container station and a shuttle assembly. The container station is configured to provide a plurality of containers. The shuttle assembly is configured to move between a first shuttle position to r...