ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,888, issued on March 11, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Interlocking structure of bottom surface portion of paper box" was invented by Myung Jae Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is to provide an interlocking structure of a bottom surface portion of a paper box, in which the interlocking force between the bottom surface plates constituting the bottom surface portion of the paper box is improved, thereby improving durability of a bottom surface."

The patent was filed on Jan. 19, 2021, under Application No. 17/286,938.

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