ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,530, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Containers for collaborative work environments" was invented by Dragan Pajevic (Arlington, Mass.), Tim Martin (Andover, Mass.), Stephen E. McDonnell (Aurora, Colo.) and Stephen Charles Paschall (Acton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for containers for use in collaborative work environments. In one embodiment, an example container may include a first container wall configured to rotate toward a center of the container, a second container wall coupled to the first container wall and configured to rotate toward the center...