ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,263, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Tension International Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Horizontal bag packing machine" was invented by Robert Terzini (Corinth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A horizontal poly bubble bagging machine includes one or more vertically extending magazines, each for holding a stack of poly bubble-bags in a horizontal orientation, one or more de-stack assemblies for retrieving a poly bubble bag from a corresponding magazine, and one or more bag transport assemblies for moving the retrieved horizontally oriented poly bubble bag from the magazine to a staging area and further to a fill and seal area for...