ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,567, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to R.A JONES & Co. (Covington, Ky.).
"Method for packaging articles in boxes and packaging device operating according to such a method" was invented by Andrea Biondi (Bologna, Italy), Luca Cavazza (Bologna, Italy), Ivanoe Bertuzzi (Bologna, Italy), Enrico Campagnoli (Bologna, Italy), Marco Ghini (Bologna, Italy) and Luca Borderi (Bologna, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for packaging articles in a box includes the steps of depositing at least one article in a mandrel, and folding a blank around the mandrel in correspondence with at least one folding line of the blank. The blank is fo...