ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,599, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Graniten Engineering AB (Uddevalla, Sweden).
"Fast changeover cartoner" was invented by Fredrik Myllykangas (Uddevalla, Sweden), Daniel Brannwik (Uddevalla, Sweden) and Lars Krewer (Uddevalla, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartoner includes an entrance section, a loading section, an exit section, a transport system and a controller. The entrance section is configured for picking carton blanks from a magazine and folding a first side of the carton. The loading section is configured for loading a product into the first-side-folded carton. The exit section is configured for closing the l...