ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,658, issued on March 24, was assigned to Multi Packaging Solutions UK Ltd. (Great Britain).
"Carrier" was invented by Kevin Topfer (Bradford, Great Britain), Nigel Davis (Nottingham, Great Britain) and David Yates (Bradford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrier (2) made of cardboard, paperboard or other lightweight foldable sheet material, comprises a top sheet (4) defining one or more pockets (20) for receiving one or more products and a bottom sheet (6) attached to the top sheet (4). The top sheet (4) comprises one or more respective sets (30) of flaps (32) for forming the respective pockets (20), each flap (32) ...