US Patent Issued to TATA CONSUMER PRODUCTS GB on June 30 for "Packaging apparatus and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,030, issued on June 30, was assigned to TATA CONSUMER PRODUCTS GB Ltd. (Greenford, Great Britain).

"Packaging apparatus and method" was invented by Andrew John Bishop (Greenford, Great Britain), Neal James Mccabe (Greenford, Great Britain), Gary Robinson (Wakefield, Great Britain), John Francis Mcgowan (Wakefield, Great Britain) and Jason Shawn Lee Exley (Wakefield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaging apparatus includes two counter-rotatable sealing dies for pressing together two tissue webs to produce pockets for containing a substance for preparing beverages and to seal around said pockets. The apparatus includ...