ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,130, issued on Nov. 18.
"Sheet packaging" was invented by Gregory Simmons (Cheltenham, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sheet packaging has a corrugated ply bonded to a backing ply. The corrugated ply forms parallel flutes. The packaging comprises voids through both the corrugated ply and the backing ply at intervals along the flutes, thereby forming a plurality of insular portions interconnected by flexures. Each insular portion has a flute portion and a backing portion between adjacent voids and bonded together at respective edges and each flexure comprises bonded-together portions of the corrugated ply and the backing ply....