US Patent Issued to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance on June 2 for "Configuration of a machine for engaging a cap with a container" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,781, issued on June 2, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).

"Configuration of a machine for engaging a cap with a container" was invented by Toni Ostenson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device performs a method for configuring a capping machine, which is operable to engage a threaded cap with a threaded neck of a container. In the method, angular positions, APs, are sequentially selected from a predefined set of APs of the cap, where each AP corresponds to an orientation of the cap relative to the neck. For each AP, a cap mounting test is performed, in which the capping mach...