US Patent Issued to Multi-Color on March 17 for "Embossing or debossing of a label substrate" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,436, issued on March 17, was assigned to Multi-Color Corp. (Batavia, Ohio).

"Embossing or debossing of a label substrate" was invented by Barron G. McKillip (Batavia, Ohio), A. Craig Bushman (Loveland, Ohio) and Chris Alan Schumacher (Sonoma, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A label as shown and described herein. The label may include a label substrate, an adhesive adjacent the substrate, and a liner adjacent the adhesive, such that the adhesive is disposed between the label substrate and the liner, and wherein the label substrate is embossed or debossed, and the liner is not embossed or debossed."

The patent was filed on Feb....