US Patent Issued to Krones on June 9 for "Labelling unit and method for applying labels to containers" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,604, issued on June 9, was assigned to Krones AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Labelling unit and method for applying labels to containers" was invented by Bernd Schroll (Kulmain, Germany), Johannes Strauss (Wolfsegg, Germany) and Christian Holzer (Schierling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A labeling unit and a method for applying labels to containers are described. According thereto, the labeling unit comprises an unwinding device for unwinding a label-backing tape from at least one supply reel, a processing device for separating the label-backing tape into the individual labels and for transferring the labels onto the container...