ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,716, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GBS HOLDINGS LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Bag-in-box dispensing system and method associated" was invented by Bryan Justin Robert Crosby (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Ammar Eli Altawil (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bag-in-box dispensing systems (1100) are provided which include an outer box (1101) enclosing an inner flexible container (1103), wherein the outer box includes: a top panel (1107); a bottom panel (1105); a first side panel (1125); a second side panel (1127); a first front panel (231, 329) including at least one front perforation (233, 331) configured to allow a user to separat...