US Patent Issued to Bockatech on March 25 for "Container and manufacture thereof" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,171, issued on March 25, was assigned to Bockatech Ltd. (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).

"Container and manufacture thereof" was invented by Peter Reginald Clarke (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain) and Chris Bocking (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container having an annular sidewall with upper and lower annular peripheral edges and a lattice structure of elongate ribs interconnecting the upper and lower annular peripheral edges, wherein the lattice structure is an open framework defining a plurality of sidewall openings, and a base having an annular peripheral edge which is integral with the lower annul...