ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,271, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Container handling system" was invented by Sebastian Langwieser (Abensberg, Germany), Robert Szwarc (Neutraubling, Germany), Daniel Vogler (Neutraubling, Germany) and Thomas Gerstenberg (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container handling system includes first and second rotary machines each comprising transport elements for transporting containers along first and second conveying paths, where the second conveying path is downstream of the first conveying path, a memory device, and a control device configured to determine during transpor...