ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,470, issued on June 3, was assigned to CREATIVE PLASTIC CONCEPTS LLC (Sycamore, Ohio).
"Stackable crate" was invented by Nickolas Reinhart (Sarasota, Fla.) and Jacob H. Whitta (Bluffton, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stackable crate has a horizontally oriented bottom panel and four vertically oriented side panels that are separately attached at their edges to form the stackable crate. Two straight-line channels, with widths at their tops being greater than at their bottoms, form ribs within the crate. When the channels and ribs of a first crate are aligned with the channels of a second stackable crate, the first crate nests wi...