US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on July 28 for "Methods for improving unit load efficiency" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,036, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Methods for improving unit load efficiency" was invented by Steven Lee Barnholtz (West Chester, Ohio), Andrew D. Biddle (Cincinnati), Nathalia Pelaez (Cincinnati), Jessica G. Capone (Cincinnati) and Jose A. Mercado (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for increasing unit load efficiency may include providing a pallet, forming a stack on the pallet, and wrapping the stack with an elastically deformable substrate under an applied force to reduce one or more of an initial maximum stack length to a compressed maximum stack length or an initial ...