US Patent Issued to Ranpak on Sept. 22 for "Apparatus and method for making a pouch package" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,440, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ranpak Corp. (Concord Township, Ohio).

"Apparatus and method for making a pouch package" was invented by Steven M. Toneff (Willoughby, Ohio), Robert C. Cheich (Independence, Ohio), Dennis J. Wagner (Painesville, Ohio), Brian J. Stinard (Twinsburg, Ohio) and Stanislau Yakubouski (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated pouch package-making apparatus includes a dunnage conversion apparatus and an enveloping apparatus. The dunnage conversion apparatus includes a layering device to layer an upper cover sheet material upon a lower cover sheet material with an expanded sl...