US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on June 30 for "Case and method of using the case" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,271, issued on June 30, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Case and method of using the case" was invented by Kiyoyuki Nakagawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Koichi Iwamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A case includes a case body including an accommodation space to accommodate electronic components and a discharge port to take the electronic components in and out from the accommodation space, a shutter slidable relative to the case body to open and close the discharge port, and a slider slidable at the case body relative to the shutter along a sliding direction of the shutter and including a...