ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,903, issued on March 31, was assigned to HDG-Verpackungsmaschinen GMBH (Lindlar, Germany).

"Packaging bag receiving apparatus for a packaging machine, packaging machine and method" was invented by Martin Gressler (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany), Dirk Wagner (Wipperfurth, Germany) and Georg Manz (Ruppichteroth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Packaging bag receiving device for a packaging machine for receiving a plurality of packaging bags, comprising: a plurality of holder pairs for each holding a packaging bag, wherein each holder pair comprises a first holder and a second holder arranged at a predetermined distance therefrom, ...