US Patent Issued to Gorilla Packaging on Nov. 3 for "Packaging articles" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,484, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Gorilla Packaging Co. LLC (Friday Harbor, Wash.).

"Packaging articles" was invented by Kirk Mellecker (Friday Harbor, Wash.) and Justin Mellecker (Playa Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved shipping article includes a single piece of substantially planar material with parallel scores formed therein thereby defining four substantially planar sections of the shipping article, the four planar sections of the shipping article defining, when the piece of substantially planar material is folded along the parallel scores, a first pair of substantially perpendicular adjacent sides hav...