US Patent Issued to Mettler Packaging on June 24 for "Bag, such as a shipping bag, for used coffee capsules, a method for collecting and recycling used coffee capsules, and use of the bag for collecting and shipping used coffee capsules" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,062, issued on June 24, was assigned to Mettler Packaging LLC (Raynham, Mass.).

"Bag, such as a shipping bag, for used coffee capsules, a method for collecting and recycling used coffee capsules, and use of the bag for collecting and shipping used coffee capsules" was invented by Patrick Eberhard (Morbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bag, such as a shipping bag, has an opening edge of a front wall present below an opening edge of the rear wall, so that the rear wall forms a protruding closing flap that can be folded over onto an overlapping area. The closing area has a first adhesive strip on the inner side of the rear w...