ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,761, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to YUPO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Labeled container and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Takuya Ikarashi (Ibaraki, Japan), Shunsuke Honda (Tokyo) and Takeru Yubuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for manufacturing a labeled container includes disposing an in-mold label, including the following (a) or (b), heating a preform, inserting the preform into a mold, and blow molding by expanding the preform to form a labeled container. (a) Making the one direction substantially coincide with a horizontal direction when the size of the labeled container with respect to the size of the p...