ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,234, issued on April 8, was assigned to BROWN LLC (Beaverton, Mich.).
"Methods and systems for producing pressware" was invented by Victor L Chun (Beaverton, Mich.), Steffen Brown (Beaverton, Mich.), Russ Bliss (Beaverton, Mich.), Philip Eichbauer (Beaverton, Mich.), Brian Keeley (Beaverton, Mich.) and Robert Abel (Beaverton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for forming a pressware product comprises rollers, a scoring tool, a scoring station actuator, a forming tool, and a forming station actuator. The rollers pull the web along a path having an angle. The scoring tool receives the material from the rollers and includes ...