ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,530, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to b.box for kids developments Pty Ltd (Notting Hill, Australia).

"Container" was invented by Lisa Edlund Tjernberg (Notting Hill, Australia) and Sylvain Jacques Amatoury (Notting Hill, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food container has a container bottom and a container lid. The container bottom has a base and walls upstanding from the base to define a container bottom interior. The container lid has a top cover and side edges, and the top cover overlies the base when the lid is in closed connection with the bottom. The top cover includes an elastically deformable portion and an inelasti...