ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,051, issued on April 8, was assigned to Daiwa Can Co. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
"Foam dispensing container" was invented by Eiji Tanaka (Sagamihara, Japan), Susumu Sato (Sagamihara, Japan) and Osamu Yoshida (Sagamihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foam dispensing container includes: a cap mounted on an opening of a container containing a foamable liquid content; a nozzle having an outlet fitted onto the cap while being allowed to reciprocate; an air pump and a liquid pump reciprocated together with the nozzle; an air cylinder joined to the air pump liquid and pushing air toward the outlet in response to reciprocation of the air...