US Patent Issued to SCHOTT Pharma on June 24 for "Glass containers for packaging salt or sugar-containing compositions in a frozen state" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,961, issued on June 24, was assigned to SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA (Mainz, Germany).

"Glass containers for packaging salt or sugar-containing compositions in a frozen state" was invented by Alexander Humbertjean (Bad Krozingen, Germany), Tobias Wetzel (Solden, Germany), Hanspeter Kummer (Mullheim, Germany) and Fatih Mutlu (Neuenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass container is characterized by a longitudinal axis (Ltube) that passes through a center of a glass bottom of the glass container. For any cut surface of the glass container that is obtainable by cutting the glass container in a plane that includes the longit...