ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,200, issued on June 16, was assigned to PEME SA (Quartino, Switzerland).
"Method and device for producing sausage chains" was invented by Stefano Pedroia (Quartino, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing sausage chains including at least two sausages, by a filling machine for filling a sausage mass into a sausage casing, wherein the sausage chain is tied for producing two separate sausages, and between the sausages, two spaced tying points and a bubble defined therebetween, wherein the bubble is smaller than a sausage and signals to an operator where to separate segments of the sausage chain from each other...