ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,631, issued on June 9, was assigned to Syntegon Packaging Systems AG (Beringen, Switzerland).

"Handling device and method for dividing a main product flow, in particular into at least two product partial flows" was invented by Linus Banteli (Winterthur, Switzerland), Michael Eder (Eggingen, Germany), Markus Lattmann (Rickenbach Sulz, Switzerland), Michael Rudolf (Beringen, Switzerland), Ramun Seger (Beringen, Switzerland), Yannik Simmler (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), Raffael Waspi (Hemishofen, Switzerland) and Jens Jakob Zorla (Feuerthalen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handling device for dividing a main product stream ...