ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,313, issued on June 24, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Storage container" was invented by Go Kobayashi (Tokyo), Junichi Hasegawa (Tokyo) and Noritaka Matsubara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage container includes: a substrate having a plurality of storage wells to store an object therein, the storage wells being formed on a predetermined substrate surface of the substrate. Further, the storage wells each includes an opening forming portion forming an opening portion opening on the substrate surface, and having an inclined surface that inclines from the substrate surface downward in a depth directio...