ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,900, issued on March 31, was assigned to COLINES S.P.A. (Novara, Italy).

"Method and assembly of winding one or more bundles with stretch film from a reel" was invented by Eraldo Peccetti (Novara, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of wrapping bundles is with stretch film from a reel. Bundles include products in transit through a wrapping machine including a wrapping unit having a ring winder which rotatably arranges stretch film around the bundles. During transit through the winding unit, the stretch film is unwound from the reel and passes through a pre-stretching group which generates axial deformation of the film pred...