ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,023, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Signode Industrial Group LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for wrapping loads of goods with tubular stretch film" was invented by Flemming B. Olsen (Haderslev, Denmark), Carsten Fenn (Sonderborg, Denmark), Tonny Konstmann (Nordborg, Denmark) and Peter Rybicki-Madsen (Broager, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems including stretch-hood machines configured to vertically and horizontally apply tubular stretch film to loads of goods and to methods for wrapping loads of goods with multiple segments of tubular stretch film."

The p...