ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,714, issued on May 20, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).
"Paper based container for household products" was invented by Logan Taylor Brooks (Cincinnati), Kassandra Walburger (Cincinnati) and Paulus Antonius Augustinus Hoefte (Astene, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container including a paperboard shell layer and a paperboard core layer. The container has a predetermined removable portion the provides for a separable cap portion. The body portion of the container extends from the shell bottom edge to a lower line of limitation. The shell layer has an interior facing surface oriented towards the longitudi...