Graphic Packaging International, Inc.

Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc.

Graphic Packaging Corporation

Adolph Coors Company

Conagra Foods Rdm, Inc.

Eli Lilly and Company

Coors Brewing Company

Molecular Technologies, Inc.

Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Joseph C Walsh

Hartmuth C Kolb

Umesh B Gangadharmath

Robert L Conatser

Dhanalakshmi Kasi

Vani P Mocharla

Gang Chen

Kai Chen

Qianwa Liang

Tieming Zhao

Henry Clifton Padgett

Wei Zhang

Anjana Sinha

Raymond S Kastanek

Eric Wang

Peter J H Scott

Anna Katrin Szardenings

Farhad Karimi

Jeffrey T Sloat

William A Cox

Brian A Duclos

David W France

Mark Richard Sinclair

Charles Thomas Gorman

Paul John Warosh

Clifton Lachmansingh

Brian Robert O'Hagan

Neilson Zeng

Laurence M C Lai

Timothy Henry Bohrer

Bing Wang

Scott Thomas Strand

Colin P Ford

Kelly R Fitzwater

Arkadij M Elizarov

Nicholas P Lupfer

Changhui Liu

Chul Yu

Zhiyong Gao

Thomas Lee Collier

Donald L Greenwood

Mark Woodward

John Dougherty Culter

Kenneth E Hawkins

Michael Shaw

Chunfang Xia

George Hackel

Fanrong Mu

Tanea Ysaguirre

James Baxley

Raymond Scott Kastanek

Norman L Jesch

Laurence Lai

Gerald M Walsh

Weston R Wilson

Matthew Robert Kearns

James W Jensen, Jr

Carroll Edward Ball

Thomas Brink

Michael Schaefers

Guenter Haufe

Andreas Faust

Shawn Westerlund

Sven Hermann

Mark Sinclair

Klaus Kopka

Robert M Yeh

Daniel Kurt Cashion

Vani P Mocharia

Hans-Joerg Breyholz

Stefan Wagner

Verena Hugenberg

Harmuth C Kolb

Ricardo Rodriguez

Robert Lee Conatser

William Allen Cox

Peter Jh Scott

Peter JH Scott

William Cox

A method of forming a tray includes obtaining a blank, positioning the blank in a blank feeder assembly of a system for forming a tray, moving the blank from the blank feeder assembly to a nipping assembly, and moving the blank to a tray forming assembly, the tray forming assembly including a tray forming apparatus. The method further includes positioning the blank between a first tray forming portion of the tray forming apparatus and a second tray forming portion of the tray forming apparatus, the first tray forming portion includes a forming block that defines an interior, and the second tray forming portion includes a tray forming member, and driving the forming block into engagement with the blank and the tray forming member such that the blank and the tray forming member are at least partially received in the interior of the forming block to form a tray.

Methods and systems for forming trays

A method of forming a tray includes obtaining a blank, the blank having a plurality of panels and a plurality of end flaps foldably connected to a respective panel of the plurality of panels. The method further includes positioning the blank in a blank feeder assembly of a system for forming a tray, moving the blank to a tray forming assembly, the tray forming assembly including a tray forming assembly, the tray forming assembly including a turret assembly comprising a plurality of female tray forming members, the tray forming assembly further comprising a piston assembly including a male forming member, positioning the blank between the turret assembly and the piston assembly, and moving the piston assembly into at least partial engagement with the turret assembly to form a tray from the blank.

A tray engaging assembly including a first vertical support, a second vertical support, a first guide rail coupled to the first vertical support, a second guide rail coupled to the second vertical support and spaced apart from the first guide rail and such that a pocket is defined between the first guide rail and the second guide rail for at least partially receiving at least one tray, and a plurality of tray engaging members pivotably coupled to a respective guide rail for engaging at least one tray.

Reconfigurable tray engaging assembly

Compounds for targeting and agents for imaging, prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) are disclosed. Methods of synthesizing compounds and imaging agents, as well as methods for imaging PSMA are also disclosed. The imaging agents disclosed are suitable for PET and SPECT imaging.

PSMA imaging agents

Tray

A system and method of manufacturing reinforced bags having reinforcing elements applied about the bags to support the bags in an opened and/or upstanding configuration. A web of bag material can be fed from a supply and can be folded and secured to form the bags. A series of reinforcing strips can be fed through an adhesive application station for application of an adhesive material thereto in a desired pattern. The reinforcing strips and bags are brought into registration and are adhesively attached to form the reinforced bags.

Method and system for manufacturing bags

Microwave cooking packages suitable for use as microwave popcorn packages include at least one panel (e.g., first and second panels) formed of a vertically rigid material. A flexible portion is attached to the panels. The flexible portion may be formed of a polyester film material such as a biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film, which may be at least partially transparent. The flexible portion (and panels) defines a bag construction configured to contain a popcorn charge and to be expandable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration when the popcorn charge is subjected to a popping operation. The microwave cooking package may include a vent assembly configured to at least partially open when the bag configuration is in an expanded configuration to vent the bag construction. The vent assembly includes a first portion a second portion of the bag construction that is configured to be folded against the first portion.

Microwave cooking package

A system and method of at least partially forming reinforced packages. The method comprises moving a construct in a machine direction on a construct conveyor. The construct conveyor can comprise a primary lug belt with a primary lug, the construct can be disposed on the primary lug belt, and the moving the construct can comprise moving the primary lug belt in the machine direction to push the construct in the machine direction. The method further can comprise positioning a liner on the construct conveyor so that the liner at least partially extends over the construct and moving the liner in the machine direction on a secondary lug belt of the construct conveyor. The secondary lug belt can comprise a secondary lug and the moving the liner can comprise moving the secondary lug belt in the machine direction to push the liner in the machine direction.

Method and system for forming packages

A method of sealing reinforced packages. The method can comprise moving an open-ended package in a downstream direction on a package conveyor by engaging the open-ended package with a chain flight of the package conveyor moving in the downstream direction. The method further can comprise forming a bag with a closed end by engaging at least a seal portion of a tail section of an open-ended tube portion of the open-ended package between the chain flight of the package conveyor and a hot plate positioned adjacent the package conveyor. The chain flight can move with the tail section in the downstream direction relative to the hot plate, which can transfer thermal energy to the tail section to at least partially form a seal along the seal portion in the tail section to at least partially form the closed end of the bag.

A system and method for forming reinforced packages. The method can comprise forming an attached web by adhering a construct to a web of material, and moving the attached web in a downstream direction through at least a web edge forming assembly. The moving the attached web can comprise moving the construct with the web of material. The method further can include at least partially forming a folded web by folding at least a portion of the web of material as the attached web moves through the web folding assembly and forming a reinforced package comprising a liner and the construct by separating the liner from a remainder of the folded web. The construct is adhered to the liner.

A method of forming reinforced packages. The method can comprise moving a blank in a machine direction on a blank conveyor, and forming a tubular web while moving a first web of material and a second web of material in the machine direction. The forming the tubular web can comprise at least partially sealing at least a portion of the first web and the second web together to form a sealed margin of the tubular web. The method further can comprise forming a liner by cutting the tubular web, forming an attached blank by attaching the liner to the blank, and moving the attached blank in the machine direction on the blank conveyor.

A method of at least partially forming a carton includes obtaining a blank comprising at least one fold line, heating an interior surface of the blank along the at least one fold line to form a heated fold line, and folding the blank about the heated fold line.

Heat-assisted carton formation

A method of forming reinforced packages. The method can comprise forming an attached web by adhering a blank to a web of material and moving the attached web in a downstream direction through at least a tube forming assembly and a carton forming assembly. The method also can comprise at least partially forming a tube by folding at least a portion of the web of material as the attached web moves through the tube forming assembly, forming a reinforcement sleeve by folding at least a portion of the blank so that the reinforcement sleeve extends at least partially around the tube as the attached web moves through the carton forming assembly, and forming a reinforced package comprising the reinforcement sleeve and a tube portion by separating the tube portion from a remainder of the tube, the reinforcement sleeve being adhered to the tube portion.

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Boulder, CO, United States of America

Joseph C Walsh