US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on July 1 for "Container having outer sleeve and inner tray with locking mechanism" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,446, issued on July 1, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Container having outer sleeve and inner tray with locking mechanism" was invented by Julie Polier (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Luiz Andre Rodrigues (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 tray (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 tray (10) cannot be accessed by a user; and a second ...