ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,181, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Nippon Shinyaku Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Pill container" was invented by Masaki Hayakawa (Kanazawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pill container includes a plurality of pill accommodation portions each extending in a first direction and having a volume allowing a predetermined plurality of pills to be accommodated therein. The plurality of pill accommodation portions each include a pair of wall portions extending in the first direction and placed so as to oppose each other. At least one of the pair of wall portions is formed in a corrugated plate shape in which a plurality of mounta...