US Patent Issued to British American Tobacco (Investments) on Aug. 11 for "Collation of packages and method of retaining packages together in a collation" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,561, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to British American Tobacco (Investments) Ltd. (London).

"Collation of packages and method of retaining packages together in a collation" was invented by Paul Hodges (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collation of packages and related methods of retaining packages together in a collation wherein each package of the collation being cuboid-shaped and including a pair of opposing first faces, a pair of opposing second faces and a pair of opposing end faces. The packages are arranged in rows such that a second face of a package faces a second face of an adjacent package within the same row, and ...