US Patent Issued to LG Energy Solution on Aug. 11 for "Automatic packaging bag closing device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,526, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Automatic packaging bag closing device" was invented by Sung Hee Chung (Daejeon, South Korea), Byeong Oh Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seung Jae Won (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic packaging bag closing device having a pair of clamping units installed in a horizontal direction on both sides near an inlet of a hopper and configured to pressurize and close a lower part of an empty packaging bag when raw material input into the hopper is completed is provided."

The patent was filed on Feb. 23, 2024, under Applicat...