US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on May 20 for "Container having box and sleeve with anti-tamper mechanism" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,723, issued on May 20, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Container having box and sleeve with anti-tamper mechanism" was invented by Ross Lange (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Julie Polier (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Steven Shainwald (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Charles Johnson (Pully, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container for consumer goods is provided, including: an outer sleeve including outer sleeve front and back walls, and first and second opposed outer sleeve side walls; an inner slide mounted within the outer sleeve and including inner slide bottom, front, and back walls; and a sle...