ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,085, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to WestRock Packaging Systems LLC (Atlanta).
"Carton and blank therefor" was invented by Matthew E. Zacherle (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to a carrier for packaging one or more articles. The carrier is formed from a set of connected blanks each of which form a top engaging carrier, wherein the blanks are detachably connected together in a matrix fashion wherein each blank has a plurality of top-receiving apertures wherein a first distance (D1) between the respective centres of two adjacent ones of the apertures of a first blank is less than a second dist...