US Patent Issued to Krones on Sept. 29 for "Method and tool for producing strapped packages" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,049, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Krones AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Method and tool for producing strapped packages" was invented by Thomas Hensel (Aying, Germany), Marcus Kreis (Kolbermoor, Germany), Florian Saumweber (Rosenheim, Germany), Herbert Spindler (Niedermoosen, Germany) and Thomas Stadler (Kolbermoor, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and a tool for producing strapped packages, where least two articles having deformable or flexible lateral surfaces are grouped and brought into a rectangular arrangement and kept together by at least one strapping band. In the method, firstly ...