ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,447, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ECA Medical Instruments (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Modular packaging structures" was invented by Randall Allard (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Philippe Pare (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are modular packaging structures and corresponding packaging methods. Packaging structures incorporating features of the present disclosure can comprise a base structure, for example a tray comprising a volume, and a backer card, which can be configured to receive one or more objects to be packaged. Differently designed backer cards can be utilized with the same base structu...