US Patent Issued to KRONES on Aug. 11 for "System for producing plastic containers with universally usable changing robot and method therefore" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,138, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"System for producing plastic containers with universally usable changing robot and method therefore" was invented by Thomas Scharl (Hirschau, Germany), Andreas Hack (Osterhofen, Germany), Martin Wagner (Regensburg, Germany) and Gerhard Schwoed (Alteglofsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for producing plastic containers with a heating device for heating plastic preforms, wherein the heating device has a transport device for transporting plastic preforms along a predetermined first transport path, and a plurality of holding devices for holdi...