US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Nov. 3 for "Container for consumer goods having housing and outer wrapper" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,521, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Container for consumer goods having housing and outer wrapper" was invented by Ross Lange (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Alexander Androsenko (Boudry, Switzerland) and Cesare Lorenzetti (Boudry, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container for consumer goods is provided, the container including: a housing configured for consumer goods; an outer wrapper having an inner surface and an outer surface, the outer wrapper including a cellulose based layer, the outer wrapper being wrapped around the housing such that a first portion of the outer...