US Patent Issued to Krones Aktiengellschaft on Jan. 27 for "Transport device for planar packaging blanks, packaging system having a packaging device for planar packaging blanks and method for operating the packaging system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,258, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Krones Aktiengellschaft (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Transport device for planar packaging blanks, packaging system having a packaging device for planar packaging blanks and method for operating the packaging system" was invented by August Peutl (Woerth an der Donau, Germany), Andreas Hack (Osterhofen, Germany), Oliver Kotz (Prien am Chiemsee, Germany), Martin Wagner (Regensburg, Germany) and Ulrich Hansbauer (Wurmannsquick, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport device (1) for planar packaging blanks is disclosed. The transport device (1) comprises at least one driverless transport ve...