US Patent Issued to Toyo Seikan, Toyo Seikan Group Holdings on Sept. 8 for "Can body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,031, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Toyo Seikan Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and Toyo Seikan Group Holdings Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Can body" was invented by Tomokazu Kobayashi (Tokyo), Hayato Fukumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomohiko Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kota Kamiyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a can body made of aluminum alloy and having a bottomed cylindrical shape including a can bottom 11 and a can barrel 12. The can bottom includes a dome part 111 provided in a center of the can bottom, and an annular convex part 112 provided on an outer circumferential edge of the dome part. The annular convex part i...