ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,564, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HUB CITY TERMINALS INC. (Oak Brook, Ill.) and SHANGHAI UNIVERSAL LOGISTICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Top side beam of container and container" was invented by Jinxiang Qi (Shandong, China), Zhiheng Chen (Shandong, China), Jakub Cerny (Darien, Ill.) and Charles Green (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The utility model discloses a top side beam of a container, which has a web plate that extends vertically along a height direction of the container, to increase a vertical height of the top side beam to above 100 mm. The utility model further discloses a container having the t...