US Patent Issued to BERRY GLOBAL on July 14 for "Container" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,627, issued on July 14, was assigned to BERRY GLOBAL INC. (Evansville, Ind.).

"Container" was invented by Jeffrey A. Mann (Evansville, Ind.), Roy E. Ackerman (Evansville, Ind.), Jonathan Eickhoff (Evansville, Ind.), Christopher M. Bolek (Evansville, Ind.) and Adam M. Schneider (Evansville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insulative container includes a container body and a container sleeve. The container body includes a floor, a brim spaced apart from the floor, and a side wall extending between and interconnecting the floor and the brim and extending circumferentially around a central axis of the container body. The container...