US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on March 4 for "Paper based container for household products" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,656, issued on March 4, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Paper based container for household products" was invented by Paulus Antonius Augustinus Hoefte (Astene, Belgium), Logan Taylor Brooks (Cincinnati) and Kassandra Walburger (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container blank including a paperboard shell layer and a core layer. The container blank has a predetermined removable portion the provides for a separable cap portion after the container blank is erected. The container blank can include a lobe for tightly fitting the cap portion to the body portion of the erected container and or provide for...