US Patent Issued to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance on June 2 for "Status monitoring of a cutting unit in a food packaging apparatus" (Italian, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,250, issued on June 2, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).

"Status monitoring of a cutting unit in a food packaging apparatus" was invented by Luca Capelli (Novellara, Italy), Davide Borghi (Modena, Italy), Daniel Sandberg (Lund, Sweden), Marco Cocconcelli (Reggio Emilia, Italy) and Achraf Lahrache (Montecchio Emilia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The status of a cutting unit (165a, 165b) in an apparatus for producing packages of liquid food is monitored based on a time sequence of measurement values from a sensor (30), e.g., a pressure transducer, which is arranged to measure cutting resis...