ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,195,262, issued on Jan. 14, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Packaging system and method for multi-component product preparation processes" was invented by Antoine Lombard (Duesseldorf, Germany), Philippe Blank (Kleve, Germany) and Angelo Dori (Langenfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaging system for a multi-component product preparation process, having: a first container for storing a first product preparation component, a second container for storing at least one second product preparation component, and a closure element which seals off the first container from the surroundings and has a co...