US Patent Issued to Multivac Sepp Haggenmuller on May 5 for "Method for automatically maintaining a predetermined portion arrangement in a tray trough and packaging apparatus suitable therefor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,573, issued on May 5, was assigned to Multivac Sepp Haggenmuller Se & Co. KG (Wolfertschwenden, Germany).

"Method for automatically maintaining a predetermined portion arrangement in a tray trough and packaging apparatus suitable therefor" was invented by Albert Hartmann (Dietmannsried, Germany) and Bernhard Klaus (Dietmannsried, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to ensure that portions are visually appealing, i.e., centered, have uniform slice spacing in a longitudinal direction and do not differ too much in a transverse direction, and in particular do not rest on a sealing edge of a trough belt in its trough, the corres...