US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on June 23 for "Package including tray for consumer product" (Virginia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,299, issued on June 23, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Package including tray for consumer product" was invented by Andrew T Peeler (Richmond, Va.), Christopher L. Simpson (Richmond, Va.), Terrance T Bache (Richmond, Va.), Evan A Hutker (Dedham, Mass.) and Aniket K Warade (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The package includes an outer container including a first section and a second section and a first tray within the outer container, the first tray defining a ridge along a periphery of the first tray, the ridge being held between a first peripheral edge of the first section and a second peripheral ...