ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,512, issued on April 14, was assigned to GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH (Biedenkopf-Wallau, Germany).
"Method for controlling the position of a material web edge" was invented by Frank Sabato (Biedenkopf, Germany) and Jochen Rehn (Biedenkopf-Wallau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for controlling the position of a lower and/or upper material web in a packaging machine, wherein the lower material web is unwound from a supply roll and conveyed intermittently or continuously along the packaging machine, packaging recesses are optionally formed in the lower material web in a forming stat...