ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,299, issued on March 18, was assigned to DAIWA CAN COMPANY (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Container bag for liquid having a spout" was invented by Hidetomo Kohara (Sagamihara, Japan), Tsuyoshi Kawabata (Sagamihara, Japan), Susumu Sato (Sagamihara, Japan) and Yuka Tozaki (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To prevent a reduction in a bending strength and a buckling strength of a container bag for fluid in which a spout is mounted on an upper end of a trunk section formed of a sheet material. Cells 9 are formed between two films of the sheet material 2 by bonding the films together along bonding lines 8, and inflated with fluid. ...