US Patent Issued to R. G. BARRY on July 14 for "Chip bag" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,616, issued on July 14, was assigned to R. G. BARRY Corp. (Pickerington, Ohio).

"Chip bag" was invented by Lee F. Smith (Pickerington, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retail product assembly includes a combination display "chip" and gift bag. A gift bag is folded into a generally flat configuration with a plurality of adjacent layers and is used as a replacement for a cardboard chip. Retail articles, such as a pair of slippers, are attached to the folded gift bag for display at a retail market. When a consumer purchases the pair of slippers, the slippers may be detached from the folded gift bag, and inserted into an interior of...