ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,067, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to GS Yuasa International Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Transport structure for lead-acid battery" was invented by Yuya Nakamura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yu Kojima (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport structure (1) for a lead-acid battery (10) includes: a packing box (20) in which a lead-acid battery (10) is packed, in which an upper wall portion (23) is formed by two flaps (24) extending from two first side wall portions (21) facing each other of the packing box (20), and in which a distal end portion (26) of at least one of the flaps (24) is bent and inserted into the packing box (20...