US Patent Issued to PANASONIC HOLDINGS on Nov. 3 for "Cushioning material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,490, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cushioning material" was invented by Koji Kadota (Tokyo), Kenji Hattori (Shiga, Japan), Masato Murakata (Hyogo, Japan), Youhei Matsuda (Hyogo, Japan) and Yusuke Okazaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cushioning material includes front and rear end walls, and left and right side walls. Each side wall includes an outside wall, and an inside wall folded back to an inner surface side of the outside wall. The inside wall includes a lower portion which includes an inclined supporting portion. The inclined supporting portion is inclined relative ...