ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,531, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany).

"Method for packing and unpacking flat substrates" was invented by Alexander Glacki (Hannover, Germany), Andreas Brunotte (Grunenplan, Germany), Rainer Buchhorn (Eschershausen, Germany), Ernst-Friedrich Dusing (Alfeld, Germany), Lutz Gackle (Gottingen, Germany), Michael Kania (Duingen, Germany), Klaus-Peter Kurek (Mainz, Germany), Michael Maedje (Grunenplan, Germany) and Anke Weems (Grunenplan, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for packing flat substrates, more particularly glass substrates, in a packaging box is provided. The method include the steps o...