ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,001, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Pregis LLC (Chicago).
"Bagger with padding expansion" was invented by Thomas D. Wetsch (Naples, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bagger device is provided. The bagger device can include a bag handler configured to handle packaging material configured to define a bag that has first and second walls enclosing an interior cavity configured to contain an object therein for shipping, the first wall including an expansion material that has an expandable configuration and that is expandable to an expanded configuration for providing padding to the first wall to protect the object contained with...