ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,999, issued on April 1, was assigned to GENERAL FIBRE PRODUCTS CORP. (New Hyde Park, N.Y.).

"Envirotray insert for protecting an object within an outer container" was invented by Dusan Henigman (New Hyde Park, N.Y.) and Stuart Shrode (New Hyde Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaging tray including a folded body formed of paper board having an exterior top surface having one or more apertures each configured to accommodate and retain a container therein. The folded body having at least one structural tube. Each structural tube includes a plurality of interior surfaces forming the structural tube and the structural tube i...