ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,607, issued on July 14.

"Fresh-keeping box" was invented by Mingfei Li (Jiexi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fresh-keeping box includes a box body and a lid body. Mounting frames and magnetic elements are arranged on surfaces, in contact with each other, of the box body and the lid body. When the lid body seals the box body to form a storage chamber, the magnetic elements at corresponding positions of the two mounting frames are mutually attracted to enable second surfaces of the two mounting frames to abut against each other. The fresh-keeping box is opened and closed magnetically, thus being easy and fast to operate and ex...