US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Sept. 8 for "Rotatable apparatuses and methods of operating the same" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,026, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Rotatable apparatuses and methods of operating the same" was invented by Jarrod W. Chalkley (Mechanicsville, Va.), Sean Sundberg (Richmond, Va.), Robert Powell (Midlothian, Va.), Isaac J. McGill (Richmond, Va.) and Charles Dendy (Ruther Glen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaging machine includes a rotatable apparatus and an ejection system. The rotatable apparatus rotates a plurality of funnels around a first central rotation axis at a first rate of rotation while a plurality of containers move continuously along an arcuate path while remai...