ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,556, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Container and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Shuichi Hasegawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yukuo Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Keisuke Iinuma (Kanagawa, Japan) and Junichiro Iri (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is used a container which includes a first member which serves as a lid portion, a second member which serves as a container portion, and resin with which a flow path, which is formed between the first member and the second member when the first member and the second member come into contact with each other, is filled, the resin bonds the first membe...