ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,389, issued on May 6.
"Method of packing" was invented by Carol L. Taylor (Kansas City, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packing system for safely packing fragile household item for moving or storage. The packing system provides a number of packing devices which include a pair of ends bridged by a central portion, and a pair of elastic skirts along the central portion, all of which form a cup-like shape for receiving the fragile household item. A variety of sizes of the packing devices could be combined within a single kit. They could be color coded. An embodiment of the invention employs unused diapers as the packing devices. Th...