ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,399, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Paper-based package cushioning for a packaging assembly" was invented by Alexander Hagedorn (Louisville, Ky.) and Pankaj Vishram Jadhav (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaging assembly for a domestic appliance may include a corrugated frame defining an enclosed section. The packaging assembly may further include a paper-based package cushion fully enclosed within the enclosed section of the corrugated frame. The paper-based package cushion may include a molded paper composite. The molded paper composite being a wet molde...