US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Dec. 30 for "Container having box and sleeve with locking mechanism" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,274, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Container having box and sleeve with locking mechanism" was invented by Onur Dayioglu (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Ross Lange (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Julie Polier (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Digvijay Singh (Pully, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container (1) for consumer goods, the container comprises an outer sleeve (20) and inner box (10) disposed within the outer sleeve (20), and configured to slide within the outer sleeve (20) between: a first position, in which the interior of the inner box (10) cannot be accessed by a us...