ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. D1,101,559, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BIG HEART PET INC. (Orrville, Ohio).
"Package" was invented by Morgan Pearl Moak (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio), Andrew Douglas Gordon (Medina, Ohio), Randall Burt Cotton (Topeka, Kan.), Aretha Turner Ashby (Fairlawn, Ohio), Adam Bricker (Massillon, Ohio), Christian Bushnell (Akron, Ohio), Elizabeth Jan Hogben (Wadsworth, Ohio), Natalie Aronson (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Tammy Chung (Milpitas, Calif.), William T. Keehn (Perry, Kan.), Jamie Lasser (San Francisco), Michelle McCune (Aptos, Calif.), Zachary Parker Willard (Akron, Ohio), Andrew Deakin (Oakland, Calif.), Judy Guo (San Francisco) and Molly Rolig (Sonoma, Calif.).
The patent was filed on Dec....