US Patent Issued to PLADIS (UK) on July 21 for "Packaging" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,546, issued on July 21, was assigned to PLADIS (UK) Ltd. (London).

"Packaging" was invented by Matthew John Masters (Ottershaw, Great Britain) and Lucian Emil Moise (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Packaging (1001) for food items, a packaged food product, and methods for packaging food items are disclosed. Such packaging has a sealed cavity (1009) for containing food items, and comprises a continuous sheet of packaging material that wraps around and defines the cavity and which is sealed at the ends of the cavity by end seals (1005a, 1005b) and along the cavity by a longitudinal fin seal (1006). The first an...