ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,296, issued on March 18, was assigned to GC Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Dripping container cover" was invented by Takumi Suzuki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dripping container cover includes: a bottom part; a first pressing part; and a second pressing part including a face facing the first pressing part, wherein the above described face and a face of the first pressing part which faces the second pressing part are provided with projections, and wherein a distance between an end of each of the projections, the end being apart from the bottom part further than the other end, and the bottom part is at least a predetermined val...