ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,425, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYO SEIKAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Polyester-resin-coated seamless can and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Shota Uchino (Yokohama, Japan), Seitaro Kanazawa (Yokohama, Japan), Shiori Adachi (Yokohama, Japan), Noriyoshi Obara (Tokyo) and Wataru Kurokawa (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polyester-resin-coated seamless can including a reduced diameter portion obtained by neck processing within a distance of 0% to 15% from a can body uppermost portion with respect to a total height of the can from the can body uppermost portion to a can bottom of the can. A ratio Im/Iu ...