ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,130, issued on May 20, was assigned to PepsiCo Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Method for blow molding containers" was invented by Advait Bhat (White Plains, N.Y.), Girish Nilkanth Deshpande (Carmel, N.Y.) and David Robert McKelvey (Belfast, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for blow molding a container includes heating a central region of a preformed puck to a first temperature, and heating an annular region surrounding the central region of the preformed puck to a second temperature that is greater than the first temperature. The heated preformed puck is arranged at an upper end of a mold cavity of a mold that defines a...