ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,539, issued on May 12, was assigned to KURA SUSHI INC..

"Holder" was invented by Kunihiko Tanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Naoki Sakamoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holder houses a container of a fluid to be conveyed. The holder has a holder body having a bottom wall and a first side wall extending upward from a peripheral edge of the bottom wall, and a lid body having a top surface and a second side wall extending downward from a peripheral edge of the top surface. The lid body opens and closes an upper opening defined by an upper end of the first side wall. In a state where the container is housed in the holder, the upp...