ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,518, issued on July 21, was assigned to Signode Industrial Group LLC (Tampa, Fla.).
"Stretch-hood machine for partially sealed stretch-hood" was invented by Tonny Konstmann (Nordborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a stretch-hood machine and method of operating a stretch-hood machine to wrap an item with tubular film. The method includes drawing tubular film from a roll of film and forming a first seal section at a first end of a section of the tubular film, where the first seal section extends across only a portion of a width of the tubular film so as to provide a partial...