ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,348, issued on March 3, was assigned to ISHIDA Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Bagmaking and packaging apparatus" was invented by Atsuya Kato (Ritto, Japan), Takafumi Ohtani (Ritto, Japan) and Hiroki Fujihara (Ritto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bagmaking and packaging apparatus includes a transport unit configured to transport a first film or a second film in a film transport direction, a register mark detection unit configured to detect a register mark for position alignment, a bagmaking and packaging unit configured to make an individual packaging bag by cutting the first film or the second film by using a position of the regi...