US Patent Issued to TANAX on July 7 for "Straw and manufacturing method of straw" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,730, issued on July 7, was assigned to TANAX INC. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Straw and manufacturing method of straw" was invented by Ippei Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method of a straw includes: overlapping a first sheet material in which a plurality of straight linear crest portions and straight trough portions are alternately arranged and a second sheet material facing the first on the crest portion side; forming a closed space between the trough portion and the second sheet material by joining the first and second sheet materials at the crest portion of the first sheet material; and a plurality of str...