ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,439, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to FREE-FREE INDUSTRIAL CORP (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Kitchen container with built-in rotating mechanism" was invented by Yi-Liang Hou (Taipei, Taiwan), Che-Hsin Liao (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chen-Yu Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kitchen container includes a container body, a cover body, a rotating mechanism, and a drive element. The rotating mechanism includes a moving rack transversely movable on the cover body, a main gear driven by the moving rack and a drive gear driven by the main gear. The drive element is connected with the drive gear. The main gear is linked with the drive ...