US Patent Issued to TOYO SEIKAN on Sept. 1 for "Spout pouch" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,862, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYO SEIKAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Spout pouch" was invented by Hiroki Tanaka (Yokohama, Japan) and Soya Yoshida (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a spout pouch that improves easiness of spouting a content liquid through a spout and suppresses breakage of a pouch main body with the vicinity of a flange outer peripheral edge as a starting point. There is provided a spout pouch in which at least a part of a flange of a spout is disposed facing a region between an upper side inclined edge portion of a front side outer edge and an upper side inclined edge portion of a rear side...