ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,556, issued on April 15, was assigned to CHEP Technology Pty Ltd (Sydney) and CHEP UK Ltd (Surrey, Great Britain).

"Pallet with at least one device chamber" was invented by Daniel Lopez Uran (Addlestone Surrey, Great Britain), Malcolm Charles Cant (Addlestone Surrey, Great Britain), Jan Vinke (Roswinkel, Netherlands) and Torsten Podhajecky (Minden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a pallet component comprising a support portion and an attachment portion. The attachment portion extends from the support portion and is defined, at least in part, by a perimeter wall. The perimeter wall surrounds one or more intern...