US Patent Issued to CO2PAC on Dec. 23 for "Variable displacement base and container and method of using the same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,292, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CO2PAC Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Variable displacement base and container and method of using the same" was invented by Raymond A Pritchett Jr. (Mt. Wolf, Pa.), Willie F. Hatcher (Hanover, Pa.) and Michael T. Kelly (Manchester, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hot-fillable plastic bottle including a finished portion, a body portion with at least one circumferential rib configured to resist radial distortion, and a base portion. The base portion comprises a base sidewall, a bottom support surface extending radially inward from the base sidewall and defining a reference plane, an inner sup...