US Patent Issued to Perfetti Van Melle on July 21 for "Apparatus for making confectionery products" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,323, issued on July 21, was assigned to Perfetti Van Melle S.P.A. (Lainate, Italy).

"Apparatus for making confectionery products" was invented by Massimo Rosa (Lainate, Italy), Alessandro Franco (Lainate, Italy), Massimiliano Moneta (Lainate, Italy), Andrea Formicola (Lainate, Italy), Evsen Suleymanoglu (Milan), Alessio Tulli (Origgio, Italy), Keiji Fujimoto (Lainate, Italy) and Maurizio Deleo (Lainate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A description is given of apparatus for making confectionery products (1), in particular chewing gum, comprising a cutting station comprising at least two cutting units (10, 20) arranged in success...