ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,170, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).
"Method for manufacturing a PHA container" was invented by Laurent Henriquel (Epinal, France), Charlyse Pouteau (Vittel, France), Johannes Zimmer (Lausanne, Switzerland) and KArson Durie (Athens, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a plastic container, the method comprising the following steps: o providing an injected preform, o heating the preform (S2), and o performing stretch blow molding (S3) of the preform, thereby forming the container. The preform is made of a material comprising 40 ...