US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on April 22 for "Container carrier" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,903, issued on April 22, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Container carrier" was invented by Vincent Bowman (Highland Park, Ill.), Griffin E. Rustad (Chicago), Hyunchul Kim (Chicago) and Jacob M. Fornof (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container carrier for unitizing a plurality of containers that includes a first engagement means configured to engage a can and a second engagement means configured to engage a bottle, wherein the first engagement means and the second engagement means are generally superimposed upon each other."

The patent was filed on Nov. 4, 2022, under Application No. 17/981,064....