ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,329, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & Co. KG (Hard, Austria).

"Stretch-blown plastic container with a handle region made integral and method of production for the plastic container" was invented by Adem Demir (Lauterach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stretch-blown plastic container, includes a container body which encloses a filling volume with a container bottom; a container neck which adjoins an opposite end of the container body, having a container opening and an integrated handle region, the handle region being hollow and joined to the filling volume which is enclosed by the container ...