US Patent Issued to GBUK on Sept. 9 for "Body bag" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,091, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GBUK Ltd. (North Duffield, Great Britain).

"Body bag" was invented by Joseph Cowan (Selby, Great Britain), Ross Allsopp (Selby, Great Britain) and Nicholas Scard (Selby, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body bag includes an elongate base layer, an elongate top layer attached to the base layer to define an internal cavity, and an elongate flap provided in the top layer, wherein the flap is releasably securable to a fixed portion of the top layer. In addition, the base layer includes a low friction material disposed across at least a portion of an interiorly facing surface. Methods...