ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,622, issued on July 14.
"Containers with inflatable dunnage" was invented by Srinivasa Rao Vallabhaneni (Ellesmere Port, Great Britain), Daniel Isler (Liverpool, Great Britain), James Dickson (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Rafael Negrillo Garcia-Figueras (Liverpool, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a container (200) comprising a container body (202) which forms an internal cavity for receiving content. The container (200) has an opening (236) through which the content is able to be inserted to and removed from the internal volume. A closure (204), which may be in the form of a lid, is movabl...