ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,513, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HEY CIRCLE GMBH (Munich).

"Foldable transport container" was invented by Doris Diebold (Munich), Christian Krawczyk (Munich), Nadja Sommer (Bargau, Germany) and Felix Boettcher (Gross-Gerau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a foldable transport container (10), which can be moved between an unfolded transport position and a folded position, with a base (12), a lid (16), a side wall (14a) carrying the lid (16) and three further side walls (14), wherein the lid (16) is pivotably connected to the supporting side wall (14a) about a pivot axis, characterised in that int...