ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Alcoa USA, Pittsburgh, has been assigned a patent (9,707,615) developed by three co-inventors for a "shaped metal container and method for making same." The co-inventors are Robert E. Dick, Cheswick, Pennsylvania, Anthony J. Fedusa, Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania, and Gary L. Myers, Sarver, Pennsylvania.

The patent application was filed on Aug. 22, 2011 (13/214,676). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect . . .