ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,910, issued on April 22, was assigned to Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Ill.).
"Collapsible, hangable plastic bottle" was invented by Ayberk Abayhan (Dublin, Ohio), Emily Brudos (Worthington, Ohio), Jameel Ahmed (Hilliard, Ohio) and James Perry (Gahanna, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to bottles that are configured to undergo a controlled collapse in response to pressure being placed on the front and rear walls manually by a user, vacuum forces acting inside the bottle during a tube feeding process, or both. The bottles include a rigid hanging element that is molded into an access channel pro...