US Patent Issued to British American Tobacco on April 29 for "Collation of packages for delivery systems" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,288, issued on April 29, was assigned to British American Tobacco Ltd. (London).

"Collation of packages for delivery systems" was invented by Paul Hodges (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a collation of packages. The collation of packages comprises a plurality of individual packages, each package comprising a pair of opposing first faces, a pair of opposing second faces, and a pair of opposing end faces. The packages are arranges in rows in which each package is aligned in a face-to face orientation such that a first face of a package faces a first face of an adjacent package within a row, and a s...