US Patent Issued to Graphic Packaging International on Nov. 18 for "Methods and systems for forming trays" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,716, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Graphic Packaging International LLC (Atlanta).

"Methods and systems for forming trays" was invented by Joseph C. Walsh (Boulder, Colo.), Robert L. Conatser (Golden, Colo.) and Mark Woodward (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a tray includes obtaining a blank, positioning the blank in a blank feeder assembly of a system for forming a tray, moving the blank from the blank feeder assembly to a nipping assembly, and moving the blank to a tray forming assembly, the tray forming assembly including a tray forming apparatus. The method further includes positioning the b...