ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,842, issued on June 23, was assigned to ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG (Hard, Austria).

"Method, system, and blow molding machine for blow molding a container" was invented by Stephan Urabl (Hochst, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for blow molding a container having a fiber-based shell (20) is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing a fiber-based shell (20) introducing a preform (30) into the fiber-based shell (20) in order to produce a semi-finished product (60) gripping the semi-finished product (60) by means of a gripper (40) transferring the semi-finished product (60) into a blow molding too...