US Patent Issued to WestRock Packaging Systems on Oct. 7 for "Package, article carrier and blank therfor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,872, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to WestRock Packaging Systems LLC (Atlanta).

"Package, article carrier and blank therfor" was invented by Julien D. Merzeau (Chateauroux, France), Jean-Christophe Bonnain (Chateauroux, France) and Emmanuel Davaillon (Chateauroux, 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 a blank (10) for forming the article carrier. The article carrier comprises a plurality of panels (12,14,16,18,20,22,24) forming a tubular structure for surrounding at least one article. The article carrier comprises an article r...