US Patent Issued on March 17 for "Method of processing a plastic container to increase internal pressure" (New Zealander, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,027, issued on March 17.

"Method of processing a plastic container to increase internal pressure" was invented by David Melrose (Auckland, New Zealand), John Denner (York, Pa.), Paul Kelley (Wrightsville, Pa.), Gregory Trude (Seven Valleys, Pa.) and Campbell Melrose-Allen (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing a plastic container to increase internal pressure including blow-molding the container to comprise an invertible panel in the base and a standing ring, hot filling and sealing the container, feeding the container into an apparatus with a holding device and forcing a volume reduction and pr...