ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,890, issued on March 11, was assigned to DS SMITH PACKAGING DEUTSCHLAND STIFTUNG & Co. KG (Erlensee, Germany).
"Method for the production of an eco-bowl" was invented by Andreas Nagel (GroBenluder, Germany) and Rudiger Lindner (Dormagen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a bowl formed by a tray closed by a sealing film involves preparing a blank where a first and a second couples of crease lines delimit a bottom panel, two first and two second side walls, each first side wall provided of an internal flap and an external flap delimited by respective third and fourth crease lines, each second side wall prov...