ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,091, issued on April 7, was assigned to Pratt Corrugated Holdings Inc. (Brookhaven, Ga.).
"Method of collapsing a collapsible box" was invented by Greg Sollie (Sharpsburg, Ga.), Shifeng Chen (Newport News, Va.) and Randy Ball (Peachtree City, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of collapsing a collapsible box includes providing the collapsible box, the collapsible box comprising: a plurality of side panels including a first side panel and a second side panel, each of the plurality of side panels defining a side panel top edge; a box bottom; and a box top comprising a plurality of top panels including a first top panel extendi...