US Patent Issued to Heineken Supply Chain on Feb. 18 for "Container and set of preforms for forming a container" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,404, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Heineken Supply Chain B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Container and set of preforms for forming a container" was invented by Pieter Gerard Witte (The Hague, Netherlands), Arie Maarten Paauwe (Naaldwijk, Netherlands), Bart Jan Bax (Blaricum, Netherlands) and Harold Marcel Blom (Houten, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Container of a bag-in-container type, wherein a neck region of the container is provided with at least one opening extending substantially radially there through, into a space between the outer container and an inner container adjacent thereto, wherein the neck region is provided with...