US Patent Issued to DS SMITH on June 24 for "Method for customizing a blank, and the resulting blank" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,568, issued on June 24, was assigned to DS SMITH PLC (London).

"Method for customizing a blank, and the resulting blank" was invented by Russell Turner (Monmouth, Great Britain) and Stephen James Pointon (Stone, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for customizing a blank of sheet material delimited by first and second opposite sides and third and fourth opposite sides orthogonal to the first and second sides involves doing, on a face of the blank, a first couple of first and second wave-shaped crease lines and a second couple of third and fourth wave-shaped crease lines, each wave-shaped crease line being crossed by...