ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,880, issued on Oct. 7.
"Storage box" was invented by Du Zhang (Taizhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a storage box, relating to the technical field of storage boxes. Four side plates are arranged on front, rear, left and right edges of a bottom plate. Side edges of every two adjacent side plates are hinged with each other. The side plates on left and right sides are capable of being folded or unfolded front and rear to drive the side plates on front and rear sides close to or away from each other. A rear side of the bottom plate is hinged to the side plate on the rear side. The bottom plate is flippable...