ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,940, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to R.A Jones & Co. (Covington, Ky.).

"Method and bundling unit for carrying out a multi-layered packaging system" was invented by Anthony B. Salvato (Cincinnati), R. Todd Gatman (Burlington, Ky.), Thorsten Simm (Florence, Ky.), Andrea Biondi (Bologna, Italy), Luca Cavazza (Bologna, Italy) and Enrico Campagnoli (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for carrying out a multi-layered packaging system, comprising providing a plurality of packagings, moving said plurality of packagings by means of a first movement device, bringing a first group of packagings of said plurality of packag...