US Patent Issued to INTERCONTINENTAL GREAT BRANDS on May 12 for "Apparatus and method for producing tubular packages" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,801, issued on May 12, was assigned to INTERCONTINENTAL GREAT BRANDS LLC (East Hanover, N.J.).

"Apparatus and method for producing tubular packages" was invented by Kevin Ferris (Bournville, Great Britain), Daniel Bortos (Loerrach, Germany), Leesha Muman (Bournville, Great Britain), Ben Thistleton (Leicestershire, Great Britain), Phillip Loxley (Leicestershire, Great Britain) and Colin Bosworth (Leicestershire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus (10) for producing tubular packages includes a packaging material dispenser (12) and a forming section (20). The forming section (20) comprises a progressive folding region...