ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,059, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).
"Package for holding a food product and mould for a packaging machine" was invented by Erica Lundstrom (Malmo, Sweden), Goran Dahl (Hoor, Sweden), Bengt Hakansson (Sjobo, Sweden), Henrik Holm (Veberod, Sweden), Pietro Martini (Parma, Italy), Per Scharfenort (Furulund, Sweden) and Kristian Jacobsson (Dalby, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package for holding a food product. The package comprises a base, a sidewall, a shoulder, a neck and a closure for forming a sealed, inner space for the food product. The base and the sidewall ...