ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,278, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to JMS Co. Ltd. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Pressure bag" was invented by Kiyomi Nakano (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure bag (1) has a substantially rectangular shape in a plan view, and also has a bag-like shape with an opening (11) through which a bag-shaped container (50) is placed into and taken out of a housing chamber (10) in a first short side (13a) of the substantially rectangular shape. The pressure bag (1) has a double structure in which an inner sheet (20) and an outer sheet (30) are laid one on top of another so that the outer sheet (30) is located on the opposite sid...