US Patent Issued to Mettler Packaging on April 22 for "Bag, in particular plastics bag, for used coffee capsules, method for collecting and recycling used coffee capsules and use of such bags for collection and shipping of used coffee capsules" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,942, issued on April 22, was assigned to Mettler Packaging LLC (Raynham, Mass.).

"Bag, in particular plastics bag, for used coffee capsules, method for collecting and recycling used coffee capsules and use of such bags for collection and shipping of used coffee capsules" was invented by Rene Donner (Morbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bag, preferably a plastics bag, for the collection of waste, which may include damp waste such as used coffee capsules, wherein, a bag opening is present in the bag front wall, and further comprising a closing flap which has an adhesion area to cover and close the bag opening. The disclosur...