US Patent Issued to WestRock Packaging Systems on April 7 for "Article carrier and blank therefor" (Virginia, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,102, issued on April 7, was assigned to WestRock Packaging Systems LLC (Atlanta).

"Article carrier and blank therefor" was invented by Casey P. Grey (Richmond, Va.), Noah Dean (Newport News, Va.), Joel C. Panek (Moseley, Va.) and John D. Benson (North Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to an article carrier for packaging one or more articles and a blank for forming the carrier. The carrier comprises a main panel having one or more article retention structures for receiving and securing the main panel to a respective article. The article retention structures each comprise a perimeter. The ...