US Patent Issued to LumiTerra on July 14 for "Aluminum cup" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,849, issued on July 14, was assigned to LumiTerra Inc. (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

"Aluminum cup" was invented by Kevin Diamond (Los Angeles), Paul Kradin (Solvang, Calif.), Sandro Mizzon (Sabaudia, Italy), Steve Bauerfeind (Solvang, Calif.) and Sam Ristich (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various embodiments described herein include aluminum cups and method and materials to form aluminum cups. In one aspect, an aluminum cup includes a cup side wall including an aluminum foil layer, a first polymer layer, and a second polymer layer. The first perpendicular edge of the cup side wall can be heat-bonded to the second perpend...