ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,300, issued on May 26, was assigned to Syntegon Packaging Systems AG (Beringen, Switzerland).

"Handling device and method for buffering products, in particular foods" was invented by Yannik Simmler (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), Linus Banteli (Winterthur, Switzerland), Jens Jakob Zorla (Feuerthalen, Switzerland), Michael Rudolf (Beringen, Switzerland), Raffael Waespi (Hemishofen, Switzerland), Markus Lattmann (Rickenbach Sulz, Switzerland), Ramun Seger (Beringen, Switzerland) and Michael Eder (Eggingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handling device for buffering products includes a transport unit having at least one feed conv...