B65B 65/003
Packaging lines
Official title: {Packaging lines, e.g. general layout}
B65B65/003 (Packaging lines) appears on 454 US grants and 611 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65B- Granted patents
- 454
- Published applications
- 611
- Assignees
- 306
- Inventors
- 1,149
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 58 | 59 |
| 2025 | 59 | 52 |
| 2026 | 41 | 38 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Machine for making capsules6 Oct 2026US 12,752,949 B2I.M.A. Industria Macchine
- Packaging machine6 Oct 2026US 12,752,954 B2Mpac Lambert Limited
- System and method for packaging material sheets15 Sep 2026US 12,735,212 B1Concord Supply, Inc.
- Packaging machine with a system for detecting a packaging element8 Sep 2026US 12,729,027 B2Syntegon Technology GmbH
- Automated loading and packing for custom-sized packages8 Sep 2026US 12,729,028 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Modular multiplatform system for mrna drug production8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306407 A1BioNTech SE
- Packaging machine system with agvs and method for controlling same24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288161 A1Gerhard Schubert GmbH
- Battery manufacturing system and method, automated plant including the battery manufacturing system, and machine-readable medium10 Sep 2026US 2026/0265001 A1LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
- Food Assembly And Packaging Robot20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242083 A1Lab 37 LLC
- Apparatus and method for automatically filling and weighing containers6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225746 A1I,M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Customer specific packaging line having containers with tag means containing medication order information199US 6,317,648 B1Merck & Co., Inc. · 2001
- Customer specific packaging line164US 6,522,945 B2Merck & Co., Inc. · 2003
- System and method for packaging of mass-fabricated custom items64US 7,748,199 B2Align Technology, Inc. · 2010
- Method for packaging articles using pre-perforated heat shrink film47US 7,328,550 B2Douglas Machine Inc. · 2008
- Method and apparatus for transporting flexible packages, particularly flat bags, filled with pourable or flowable material to container filling stations41US 4,676,050 AOstma Maschinenbau GmbH · 1987