US Patent Issued to IOW on Aug. 4 for "System and method for automatically packaging an item" (Oregon, Minnesota, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,119, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to IOW LLC (Renton, Wash.).

"System and method for automatically packaging an item" was invented by Timothy Alan Talda (Renton, Wash.), John Michael Moran (West Linn, Ore.), Donald Olson (Mora, Minn.), Paul Olson (Mora, Minn.) and Eric Olson (Mora, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus, and method for automatically packaging one or more articles as a set of items to be shipped is disclosed. The system, apparatus, and method processes packaging material based at least in part on a scan of the set of items to be shipped, and forms cushioning of two matched streams of packaging mater...