ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,681, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Writing device packaging boxes" was invented by Xiang Ma (Spring, Texas), Wei Hung Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Simon Wong (Spring, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of the present disclosure includes a packaging box, comprising a first section including a first aperture to receive a portion of a writing device, and a second section including a second aperture to receive a remainder of the writing device. The packaging box further includes a hinge mechanism coupling the first section to the second section, wherein the first section ...