ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,880, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ring Container Technologies LLC (Oakland, Tenn.).

"Packaging container manufacturing system and method" was invented by Billy Ray Felkins Jr. (Valdosta, Ga.) and Robert Charles Graefe Jr. (Deland, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a packaging container comprises the steps of molding an article having a selected configuration and including a body defining a volume, a neck and a dome; trimming the article to remove the dome to form a finished container; aligning the finished container with a device having at least one heated rib; and engaging the at least one heated...