ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,174, issued on July 28, was assigned to PepsiCo Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Methods for digitally designing preforms and molding instructions for bottles" was invented by Advait Rasik Bhat (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for producing blow molding instructions for a bottle preform, including creating a first set of first blow molding experiments for blow molding a selected preform design into a target bottle design, each experiment having a different set of blow molding parameters, simulating each experiment of the first set of blow molding experiments using a simulation software program, selecting a group of e...