US Patent Issued to SACMI COOPERATIVA MECCANICI IMOLA SOCIETA' COOPERATIVA on March 31 for "Capsule cutting apparatus and method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,514, issued on March 31, was assigned to SACMI COOPERATIVA MECCANICI IMOLA SOCIETA' COOPERATIVA (Imola, Italy).

"Capsule cutting apparatus and method" was invented by Fabrizio Villa (Imola, Italy) and Riccardo Dall'olio (Medicina, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting apparatus and method are disclosed for making an anti-tamper device of a closing capsule of a container, in which the capsule is fed to a cutting device whilst the capsule is retained between a locking member and a base opposite the locking member, with an annular abutment that is arranged around a rotation axis of the locking member and which is moved from a ...