ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,434, issued on July 1, was assigned to CABKA Group GmbH (Berlin).
"Collapsible container and method of operating a collapsible container" was invented by Luis Asensio Cotillas (Valencia, Spain) and Guillermo Santamans Pons (Riba-roja de Turia, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collapsible container comprising a base comprising a plurality of grooves located at a periphery of a top surface of said base; a first sleeve having a first set of three flat surfaces; wherein at least one first flat surface of said first set of three flat surfaces comprises an extension of said first flat surface adapted to be inserted in at least one gro...