ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,268, issued on May 26, was assigned to GPI Systems AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Sealing disc for paperboard container and a packaging container comprising the sealing disc" was invented by Anna Naukkarinen (Helsingborg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing disc for sealing an inner compartment in a packaging container includes a first surface and a second surface. The sealing disc is delimited by a sealing disc outer edge. Additionally, the sealing disc includes a peripheral edge portion surrounding at least two fully or partly removable tear-open parts. Each fully or partly removable tear-open part is arranged to be fully or partly...