US Patent Issued to Krones on Dec. 23 for "Method, application device, and packaging device for producing strapped packages" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,261, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Krones AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Method, application device, and packaging device for producing strapped packages" was invented by Marcus Kreis (Kolbermoor, Germany), Herbert Spindler (Niedermoosen, Germany), Peter Haidacher (Kiefersfelden, Germany) and Florian Saumweber (Rosenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates a method using an application head for grouping articles that are held together by a strapping band. The method includes: providing the at least two grouped articles; inserting a prefabricated closed strapping band into the application head, wherein the...