ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,704, issued on July 15, was assigned to WestRock Packaging Systems LLC (Atlanta).
"Article carrier and blank therfor" was invented by Bartlomiej Stepkowski (Lomianki Dolne, Poland), Julien D. Merzeau (Chateauroux, France) and Christian Labergere (Ardentes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to a package, an article carrier for packaging a plurality of articles and to a blank for forming the article carrier. The article carrier may package at least one article having a recess. The article carrier comprises a plurality of panels for forming a tubular structure for surrounding at least one article. Th...