US Patent Issued to Bedford Industries on March 31 for "Resilient bag closure strip and method" (Minnesota, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,914, issued on March 31, was assigned to Bedford Industries Inc. (Worthington, Minn.).

"Resilient bag closure strip and method" was invented by Jay A. Milbrandt (Worthington, Minn.), Trevor Wintz (Round Lake, Minn.), Michael Schultz (Worthington, Minn.) and David Schiller (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reclosure article is configured for permanent attachment to a flexible container. The article includes a resilient, elongated strip including first and second fasteners proximate each of two opposed ends, wherein at least the first fastener includes a slot configured to receive one of first and second opposite sid...