US Patent Issued to Hazen Paper on July 21 for "Anti-microbial packaging assembly" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,542, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hazen Paper Co. (Holyoke, Mass.).

"Anti-microbial packaging assembly" was invented by John Hazen (South Hadley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-microbial packaging includes an innermost decontamination layer defining an inside and exposed surface of the packaging against which items in the packaging would contact. A fiber substrate layer is fixed to the innermost decontamination layer which itself is a metal or a metallic-alloy layer."

The patent was filed on April 1, 2021, under Application No. 17/220,221.

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