US Patent Issued to CANON on April 7 for "Packing box" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,093, issued on April 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Packing box" was invented by Hideto Sakai (Tokyo) and Kazunari Iwai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packing box formed of corrugated paper having a corrugated medium with ridges and grooves arrayed in an array direction, including a first side part, a second side part opposed to the first side part, an inner lid part bent along a first edge portion of the first side part, an outer lid part bent along a second edge portion of the second side part, and an adhesion part for bonding an outer surface of the inner lid part and an inner surface of the outer lid p...