ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,113, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOKIWA Corp. (Gifu, Japan).

"Application container" was invented by Wataru Kuga (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application container includes a leading tube, an outer tubular member, an inner tubular member fixed to the outer tubular member, and a push rod that advances within the inner tubular member and pushes the drawing material, so that a drawing material comes out from an opening of the leading tube. The outer tubular member has a through hole formed in a side surface of the outer tubular member. At least a part of the inner tubular member that is exposed from the throu...