ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,004, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Formosa Forges Corp. (Nantou, Taiwan).
"Shipping container connector" was invented by Jung-Kuang Hsieh (Taichung, Taiwan) and Pei-Yi Yang (Nantou, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shipping container connector includes a first latch unit, a second latch unit and a pulling rope unit. The first latch unit has a first body member, a first latch portion. The first body member has two side walls cooperatively defining a mounting space. One of the side walls has a threading hole. The second latch unit is disposed in the mounting space, and includes a second body member, and a spring member. Th...