ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,529, issued on April 21, was assigned to Sato Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Application container" was invented by Kota Sakata (Tokyo), Kiyohiko Rikiishi (Tokyo), Yoshinori Itoh (Tokyo) and Yoshitoshi Koyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application container (1) of the present invention includes: an inner plug member (20) mounted on a mouth portion (10) of a container main body (2) and formed with a communication hole (21) and a discharge hole (22); a holder (30) that includes an accommodating portion (31) and a plug body (35) and is formed with a communication path (40) between the holder (30) and the inner plug mem...