ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,455, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Seville Classics Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Collapsible woven basket and method of making same" was invented by Chi-Jeh Yang (Changhua County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for making a collapsible woven basket which has four frame members. According to the method, the right side of each frame member is connected to the left side of an adjacent frame member to form pivoting connections. Vertical bands are formed by wrapping a vertical strip of material around the top and bottom sides of the four frame members in a manner where a vertical space is defined between adjace...