US Patent Issued to THE COCA-COLA on Sept. 29 for "Hot fill container with wavy groove" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,060, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to THE COCA-COLA COMPANY (Atlanta).

"Hot fill container with wavy groove" was invented by Jeffrey Klok (Atlanta), Sterling Lane Steward (Douglasville, Ga.), Venkat Govindarajan (Duluth, Ga.) and Feng Shi (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a container for a beverage filled in a hot fill process. The container may include an upper section and a lower section. The lower section may include a wavy groove defining a number of tongue panels and wherein the wavy groove may include a substantial Z-like shape."

The patent was filed on May 9, 2018, under Applic...