US Patent Issued to Azionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.C.M.A. on Nov. 3 for "Apparatus for making filled pasta" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,143, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Azionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.C.M.A. S.p.A. (Bologna, Italy).

"Apparatus for making filled pasta" was invented by Maria Livia Melchionda (Bologna, Italy), Domenico Polidori (Bologna, Italy) and Riccardo Ruggeri (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Machine for making filled pasta including a feeding station, configured for feeding a layer of fresh pasta and a predetermined quantity of a semi-finished food product to a coupling space of said machine, and a coupling device configured for coupling the layer of fresh pasta and the predetermined quantity of semi-finished food p...