ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,639, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Container treatment system" was invented by Niels Clausen (Dollerup, Germany), Jens Luecke (Flensburg, Germany) and Christian Depner (Silberstedt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a container treatment system for treating containers comprising a first treatment block with a first single-line container exit point, further comprising a downstream second treatment block having a wet region and/or temperature control region with a mass conveyor for containers, a first single-line container feed point upstream of the mass conveyor and a second sin...