ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,912, issued on March 31, was assigned to SEISAN NIPPONSHA LTD. (Tokyo).

"Product-containing outer bag, bag feeding device, and supply method" was invented by Takayuki Noguchi (Tokyo) and Tatsuya Kudama (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product-containing outer bag in which a plurality of bags stacked in a row continuously or intermittently, with the bags, as products, partially overlapping each other, are wrapped and integrated with an outer bag, for outer packaging, having a resin film as a base material such that a state of stacking of the bags is maintained, in which the outer bag includes a first side, a second...