US Patent Issued to Domtar Paper on Nov. 11 for "Paper retail bag" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,612, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Domtar Paper Co. LLC (Ft. Mill, S.C.).

"Paper retail bag" was invented by Jonathan Zayat (Naperville, Ill.), Jae Young Jeon (Glenview, Ill.), Andrew Johansen (Chicago) and Brent Lindberg (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes paper bags and methods for forming paper bags. Some of the bags may include a body, a first attachment portion configured to engage an arm of a bag holder, and a second attachment portion configured to engage another arm of the bag holder. In some aspects, the body defines an opening and includes opposing first and second sides, a first sec...