ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,239, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MARCHESINI GROUP S.P.A. (Pianoro, Italy).

"Method and a system for managing the serialisation and tracing of packs of products to be grouped and inserted in a respective container" was invented by Simone Nannetti (Grizzana Morandi, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for managing the serialisation and tracing of packs of products, which are to be gathered in groups of packs to be inserted in respective containers, comprises: picking up, from a first conveyor means (1), a first series of packs of products (P) for which a respective series of reference codes (a, b, c) present thereon ...