ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,369, issued on March 3, was assigned to MARS Inc. (McLean, Va.).
"Easy peel pouch" was invented by Uwe Nehus (Verden, Germany), Stefan Eberhardt (Verden, Germany) and Gytis Kulbickas (Verden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for a flexible package including one or more permanent seals and an easy-peel seal. The easy-peel seal an elongated shape that defines a convex portion which projects away from the enclosed space. When opening the package by pulling apart the opposing walls thereof as by grasping and pulling a plurality of flaps, the effective peeling force increases at least 5 N as the ...