US Patent Issued to Acorn West on Feb. 3 for "Thermal regulating lay flat beverage container packaging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,000, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Acorn West LLC (Los Angeles).

"Thermal regulating lay flat beverage container packaging" was invented by John Gilligan (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Ron Valtierra (Vacaville, Calif.) and Justin Haas (Fairfield, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Beverage container packing trays, systems, and techniques of packing beverage containers include at least a beverage container tray including beverage container contoured compartments configured to receive one or more beverage containers in a lay flat configuration. The beverage container contoured compartments include at least a cradle element, a conical e...