ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,174, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Printpack Illinois Inc. (Atlanta).
"Packaging material with indicium in metallic layer" was invented by Louis Douglas Smith Jr. (Temple, Ga.), John Ralph Bumgardner (Bremen, Ga.), Jeffery Allen Boekeloo (Acworth, Ga.) and Rajesh Suryanarayanan (Powder Springs, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a packaging material that is, or includes, a laminate, the laminate includes first and second webs that are joined to one another. The first web includes a metallic layer on a second layer. The metallic layer is positioned between the second layer and the second web. Indicium is defined in at least th...