US Patent Issued to Ring Container Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Container and method of manufacture" (Tennessee, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,674, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ring Container Technologies LLC (Oakland, Tenn.).

"Container and method of manufacture" was invented by Dennis W. Koerner (Memphis, Tenn.), Douglas M. Dygert (Nesbitt, Miss.), Daniel Futral (Somerville, Tenn.) and Brian Smith (Collierville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes injection molding a preform using a two phase injection system having a first phase in which a material is injected into the preform and a second phase in which the material is injected into the preform. The preform is disposed in a mold. The preform is blow molded into an intermediate article. The inter...