ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,458, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to R.A Jones & Co. (Covington, Ky.).

"Method for packaging products in boxes and packaging apparatus operating according to this method" was invented by Anthony B. Salvato (Cincinnati), R. Todd Gatman (Burlington, Ky.), Andrea Biondi (Bologna, Italy), Luca Cavazza (Bologna, Italy) and Enrico Campagnoli (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for packaging products in boxes comprises the steps of: a) providing a plurality of boxes in a folded configuration, b) collecting one box in the folded configuration and modifying the configuration thereof so as to bring it into an open config...