US Patent Issued to Ranpak on April 7 for "Forming assembly for a dunnage conversion machine, dunnage conversion machine and pre-prepared sheet stock material" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,738, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ranpak Corp. (Concord Township, Ohio).

"Forming assembly for a dunnage conversion machine, dunnage conversion machine and pre-prepared sheet stock material" was invented by Robert C. Cheich (Independence, Ohio), Dennis J. Wagner (Painesville, Ohio), Peter L.C. Lemmens (Gronsveld, Netherlands) and Rob A.H. Pluijmen (Landgraaf, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cushioning conversion machine converts a sheet stock material into a relatively lower-density cushioning dunnage product. An exemplary sheet stock material includes two sheets that each overlap a common side of another sheet and...