ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,623, issued on March 18, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).
"Packing box of playing cards" was invented by Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packing box for packaging of playing cards has, in an assembled state, a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with six faces including front and rear faces, right and left side faces, and top and bottom faces. The packing box includes cut lines in two locations at a predetermined interval in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped, and a central band in a portion defined by the cut lines provided in the two locatio...