ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,563, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Futaba Industrial Co. Ltd. (Okazaki, Japan).
"Canister" was invented by Koji Iwamoto (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a canister including at least one chamber, an inflow port, an atmosphere port, an outflow port, and a plurality of rod-shaped portions. In the at least one chamber, an adsorbent for fuel vapor is arranged. The plurality of rod-shaped portions is a plurality of elongated portions arranged in an object chamber, which is any of the at least one chamber. The adsorbent arranged in the object chamber is formed as a plurality of granular bodies. At least a par...