US Patent Issued to CONTEMPLATE on July 21 for "Modular sealing apparatus" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,517, issued on July 21, was assigned to CONTEMPLATE LLC (Fairfield, Calif.).

"Modular sealing apparatus" was invented by Christoph Milz (Fairfield, Calif.) and Uwe Schaumann (Oberderdingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a modular sealing apparatus for a vacuum packaging machine. The modular sealing apparatus includes a cap module including a central portion. The central portion locates thereupon a heating wire. The heating wire is configured to heat up when supplied with electrical power through an electrical power unit. The modular sealing apparatus further includes an actuation...