US Patent Issued to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance on Aug. 4 for "Virtual-pressure based control system and method for a filling machine flow regulating valve" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,109, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).

"Virtual-pressure based control system and method for a filling machine flow regulating valve" was invented by Nicola Garuti (Scandiano, Italy), Federica Villani (Formigine, Italy) and Fabio Bassissi (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a flow regulating valve (6) of a filling machine (1) forming composite packages (2) from a multilayer composite packaging material and filling the composite packages with a pourable filling product, wherein a position of the regulating valve controls the flow of the product...