US Patent Issued to Cryovac on Dec. 23 for "Method for vacuum skin packaging a product arranged in a tray" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,288, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cryovac LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method for vacuum skin packaging a product arranged in a tray" was invented by Riccardo Palumbo (Arona, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum skin package includes a tray and a product loaded on an inner surface of the tray. The tray includes a circumferential side wall upwardly extending from the bottom wall. The side wall defines at least one hole. A film is draped over the product and welded to the inner surface of the tray not occupied by the product to form a skin over the product and the inner surface of the tray and to hermetically close the at lea...