ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,488, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CANROCK Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Seedling pot" was invented by Yoshio Nakayama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more slit 14 extending from a free end 13 to an end portion 11 of a folded portion 10 is formed in a tongue piece portion 12 of a pot body, an intermediate portion of each of sides 6 of an opening end portion 3 is bendable in a direction opposite to a center O of the opening end portion 3 at a position of the slit 14 and a base portion of the end portion 11, and an additional vertex 5a is formed at a bent portion in addition to vertices 5 of a polygon of the opening end portion 3 ...