US Patent Issued to Pratt Corrugated Holdings on May 20 for "One- and two-pack beverage box" (Virginia, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,705, issued on May 20, was assigned to Pratt Corrugated Holdings Inc. (Brookhaven, Ga.).

"One- and two-pack beverage box" was invented by Shifeng Chen (Newport News, Va.), Greg Sollie (Sharpsburg, Ga.) and Jamie Waltermire (Peachtree City, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A box can include a body portion at least partially defining a cavity, the body portion defining a top body end and a bottom body end, the body portion including a plurality of panels, the top body end defining an opening to the cavity; a telescoping panel including an upper telescoping subpanel and a lower telescoping subpanel, the lower telescoping subpanel coup...