ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,546, issued on June 10, was assigned to Agfa NV (Mortsel, Belgium).

"Manufacturing of packaging" was invented by Johan Van Hunsel (Mortsel, Belgium) and Eddy DeDobbeleer (Mortsel, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of manufacturing a packaging box (8) including the steps of: a) determining minimal packaging box dimensions based on outer dimensions of one or more merchandise articles (19) to be packaged into the packaging box; b) digitally printing an image according to the minimal packaging box dimensions on packaging material (1), such as corrugated card board; and c) cutting and creasing the packaging box from the packag...