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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2016
Owens-brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Michael J. Whitton, Melbourne, AU;
Roger P. Smith, Perrysburg, OH (US);
Jessica R. Bryant, Toledo, OH (US);
Diana Darvish, Saint-Petersburg, RU;
Anatoly Solunin, Saint-Petersburg, RU;
Nikolay Taratin, Saint-Petersburg, RU;
Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Abstract
A product includes a bottle, and an indicator that is carried in a relief in an interior surface of at least one of a shoulder of the bottle or a neck of the bottle, and that is adapted, upon contact with air, irreversibly to change a characteristic of the indicator that is visible from outside of the bottle to indicate to a user that the product has been used. A package including the product, and a method for making the package are also disclosed.