US Patent Issued to TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE on July 14 for "Pressure element and sealing device for a packaging assembly having a pressure element" (Swedish, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,044, issued on July 14, was assigned to TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).

"Pressure element and sealing device for a packaging assembly having a pressure element" was invented by Andrea Sozzi (Modena, Italy), Fabio Ricci Curbastro (Ozzano dell' Emilia, Italy), Thomas Johansson (Eslov, Sweden) and Richard Nilsson (Kavlinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure element for a sealing device includes a sealing member and a countersealing member facing one another and configured to be pressed against one another to seal therebetween a tube of packaging material adapted to be filled with a pourable produ...