US Patent Issued to TOPPAN PACKAGING AMERICAS HOLDINGS on Oct. 14 for "Flexible packaging structure with built-in tamper-evidence features and method for making same" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,047, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOPPAN PACKAGING AMERICAS HOLDINGS INC. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Flexible packaging structure with built-in tamper-evidence features and method for making same" was invented by Benjamin Davis (Columbia, S.C.) and Scott William Huffer (Hartsville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible packaging laminate has built-in opening/reclose and tamper-evidence features by forming the laminate from an outer structure joined in face-to-face relation to an inner structure. Score lines are formed in both structures to enable an opening to be formed through the laminate by lifting a flap or the like out o...