US Patent Issued to LENZING on Sept. 23 for "Container made of paper" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,006, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to LENZING AG (Lenzing, Austria).

"Container made of paper" was invented by Andre Hofmann (Mittweida, Germany), Jochen Gruner (Dresden, Germany) and Steffen Herold (Chemnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container for holding a fluid is disclosed. The container comprises an inner sleeve having a first opening and a second opening opposite the first opening, and an outer sleeve having a third opening and a fourth opening opposite the third opening. The inner sleeve and the outer sleeve are made of paper. The first opening has a first reinforcing element which extends into the first op...