ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,852, issued on June 17, was assigned to WestRock Packaging Systems LLC (Atlanta).
"Nested beverage carton layout" was invented by Julien D. Merzeau (Chateauroux, France), Dominique Perrin (Saint Maur, France) and Nicolas Teillol (Diors, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaging carton for packaging one or more articles and to blanks (100, 200, 1000) for forming the packaging carton. The carton and blanks comprise a plurality of panels for forming the carton including a top panel (108), a bottom panel (112), a first side panel (110), and a pair of partial side panels (106, 114). Each of the bottom panel, the first side panel, ...