ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,104, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOAGOSEI Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Container" was invented by Hideki Nakagawa (Takaoka, Japan), Takashi Horie (Takaoka, Japan), Masaru Matsumoto (Tokai, Japan), Yuuki Hayakawa (Tokai, Japan) and Noriaki Date (Tokai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container including: an inner container having a nozzle portion that discharges loaded content; an outer container that is tubular, is formed of a hard resin, contains the inner container, and has an outer peripheral wall in which an opening portion is formed; a pressing portion formed of an elastomer, provided at the outer peripheral wall, and coveri...