ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,977, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SOCIETE ANONYME DES EAUX MINERALES D'EVIAN ET EN ABREGE "S.A.E.M.E" (Evian-les-Bains, France).
"Thin wall container made with a recycled material" was invented by Jean-Baptiste Tanchette (Messery, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thin wall container for being filled with a liquid reference volume, made with polyethylene terephtalate (PET), comprising a neck and a wall, wherein: the PET comprises at least 50% by weight of a PET recycled by a mechanical route (rPET), and, the container presents at least the following feature: Feature a) the wall has a thin portion having an average thick...