ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,013, issued on March 17, was assigned to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).

"Method for the production of a series of containers comprising a step for marking containers" was invented by Franck Feilloley (Octeville-sur-Mer, France), Laurent Danel (Octeville-sur-Mer, France), Stephane Linglet (Octeville-sur-Mer, France), Yves-Alban Duclos (Octeville-sur-Mer, France), Christophe Maran (Octeville-sur-Mer, France), Sebastien Moulin (Octeville-sur-Mer, France), Cyrille Lecanu (Octeville-sur-Mer, France) and David Gariou (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for the production of containers from a...