ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,977, issued on Dec. 30.
"Apparatus for automatically locking container" was invented by Cheol Ho Lee (Sejong-si, South Korea) and Yong Rak Kim (Ulsan, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for automatically locking a container, which includes: a cylindrical housing: a top plate installed on the top of the housing; a bottom plate installed under the housing; an elevation unit installed to move up and down in the housing; a locker installed to rotate left and right to lock and unlock a container; a guide guiding up-down movement and rotation movement of the locker; a first elastic sup...