ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,633, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to VMI Holland B.V. (Epe, Netherlands).

"Packaging device and method for packaging discrete medicaments in pouches" was invented by Cornelis Jan Jochemsen (Epe, Netherlands), Aalf Wijnia (Epe, Netherlands), Robert Ernst Onderdelinden (Epe, Netherlands) and Rene Smit (Epe, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaging device for packaging discrete medicaments in pouches that is configured to form and fill the pouches in an elongated web to contain the medicaments comprises a web drive for guiding the elongated web in a transport direction along a web trajectory, wherein the packaging devic...