ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,269, issued on June 30, was assigned to MURATA MANUFATURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Electronic component container" was invented by Kiyoyuki Nakagawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic component container includes a component accommodating space to accommodate electronic components, and a discharge port through which the electronic components accommodated in the component accommodating space are dischargeable to an outside. An inner wall surface of the component accommodating space has a skewness Rsk of about -0.8 or greater and about -0.3 or less."

The patent was filed on March 27, 2024, under Applica...