US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Nov. 3 for "Collapsible container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,497, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Collapsible container" was invented by Yoshiaki Mitsuo (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Wada (Osaka, Japan) and Hidehisa Konishi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collapsible container includes a lower frame, an upper frame, a pair of flip-up lateral plates, a pair of divided lateral plates, and a pair of lid plates. Each of the pair of divided lateral plates includes an upper lateral plate, a lower lateral plate, and a hinge. On outer lateral surfaces of the upper lateral plate and the lower lateral plate, a plurality of upper reinforcement ri...