US Patent Issued to SIG Services on April 7 for "Cleaning method for cleaning a filling machine and filling machine for carrying out the cleaning method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,586, issued on April 7, was assigned to SIG Services AG (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Cleaning method for cleaning a filling machine and filling machine for carrying out the cleaning method" was invented by Bernd von Birgelen (Waldfeucht, Germany), Johannes Hortmanns (Wegberg, Germany), Sabine Knauff (Linnich, Germany), Ngoc-Thinh Nguyen (Grevenbroich, Germany), Frank Ott (Neuss, Germany), Claus Panert (Neuss, Germany), Gordon Petruschkat (Recklinghausen, Germany), Michael Rosseler (Alsdorf, Germany), Christoph Schroder (Waldfeucht, Germany), Lars Wallentin (Huckelhoven, Germany) and Rene Ronneberger (Geilenkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U...