ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,208, issued on April 7, was assigned to Oasis Transformation Trading Co. Ltd. (Stourbridge, Great Britain).

"Environmentally friendly and quickly assembled flat pack coffin" was invented by David Micah How (Buckingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a flat-pack coffin made of environmentally friendly materials, the coffin comprising a lid, left- and right-hand side panels, head and foot end panels and a base assembly, wherein each right- and left-hand side panel independently has a top edge, a bottom edge, a head end edge and a foot end edge, each side panel independently being provided with a plu...