ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,021, issued on May 13, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).
"Package assembly and method for producing the package assembly" was invented by Giorgia Zanotti (Carpi, Italy), Marcello Barbieri (Modena, Italy), Pietro Martini (Parma, Italy), Anna Genowefa Engelbrecht (MJ Hoofddorp, Netherlands), James Maxwell Eelbeck (Portishead, Great Britain), John Robert Cowan-Hughes (Bristol, Great Britain), Thomas Zoltan Harkin (Bristol, Great Britain) and Alessandro Benzi (Rome).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package assembly (300, 400, 500) comprising a package (100, 302) arranged to hold a food product, wher...