US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on July 14 for "Packing member and packing material therewith" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,623, issued on July 14, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Packing member and packing material therewith" was invented by Keiichi Funaki (Osaka, Japan) and Atsushi Itano (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packing member includes a body portion and a shock absorbing member. The body portion includes a bottom face portion that is rectangular in shape and on which a packed article is placed, and a side face portion that is provided continuously with the bottom face portion via folding lines along its three sides. The body portion is assembled by folding a piece of sheet. The shock absorbing memb...