ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,869, issued on March 18, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Container forming apparatus, container forming method, container, and instant food packaging method using container" was invented by Byung Kook Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hui Jae Song (Seoul, South Korea), Kyoung Sik Cho (Seoul, South Korea) and Gyu Hwan Cha (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a container forming apparatus, a container forming method, a container, and an instant food packaging method using the container. The container forming apparatus, which is a container forming apparatus for forming a...