US Patent Issued to I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE on Sept. 1 for "Apparatus and method for automatically filling and weighing containers" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,817, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A. (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).

"Apparatus and method for automatically filling and weighing containers" was invented by Gabriele Stefanelli (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for automatically filling and weighing containers supported by a carrier member includes a first station for feeding the carrier member sequentially, a second station configured to fill and weigh the containers; a first robotic arm configured to selectively move one carrier member at a time, a second and a third robotic arm configured to receive...