US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Sept. 16 for "Assembled package including tray defining ridge" (Virginia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,667, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Assembled package including tray defining ridge" was invented by Andrew T Peeler (Richmond, Va.), Christopher L. Simpson (Richmond, Va.), Terrance T Bache (Richmond, Va.), Evan A Hutker (Dedham, Mass.) and Aniket K Warade (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The assembled package includes an outer container including a first section and a second section, and a first tray within the outer container, the first tray defining a first ridge along a periphery of the first tray, the first ridge being held between a first peripheral edge of the first sec...