ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,916, issued on Oct. 7.

"Individual tubular packaging made of impermeable paper for packaging drinking/mineral water or other liquid substances for ice formation" was invented by Jose Roberto Gesualdo (Belo Horizonte, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaging for drinking water/minerals or other liquid substances for individualized ice formation is disclosed, which provides for areas of expansion of the liquid for its transformation into ice and its tubular shape without damaging the packaging, i.e. the weak sealing (3) which provides for the expansion/expansion, which will be broken at the proposed end(s) and the expansion gen...