ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,877, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

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

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 core layer has a core rim located at a rim distance that is a function of ...