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A patent was issued in 1985 to the inventor Carmela Vitale for what she called the “package saver.” In her patent, Vitale explained that the small, three-legged plastic structure was designed to be used with disposable containers, “particularly those used to deliver pizza pies or large cakes or pies,” which tend to “sag or to be easily depressed at their center portions so that they may damage or mark the pies or cakes during storage or delivery.” Vitale’s invention has come to be known as the “pizza saver” (or just “the little plastic thingy”), and it has been responsible for preventing boxes from collapsing and ruining the cheese on millions of pizzas.