ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,212, issued on Dec. 16.
"Holder for containers in the form of a frame" was invented by Daniel Paul Scott Gilbert (Karmiel, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holder of nestable containers such as food containers in the form of a frame has walls including a bottom wall and at least one sloping wall that is a side wall. One of the walls has a cut-out, transparent window and/or decoration layer. In any wall having a cut-out the cut-out occupies at least a certain percentage of the surface area of the wall. The one or more cut-outs or transparent window may be shaped (a) to define a source identifier associated with the holder and (...