ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,270, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Method for producing a packaging from a recyclable material" was invented by Sheik Abdullah Allapichai (Lausanne, Switzerland), Alexey Vishtal (Apples, Switzerland) and Julien Gaillard (Epalinges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing a packaging (200) for enclosing a substance (500). A flat sheet (100) made of recyclable paper material and having two opposite side edge sections (101, 102) is provided and formed into a tube (120) by folding the flat sheet (100) so that the two side edge ...