ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,530, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HOSOKAWA YOKO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Discharge member, accommodating container, method for manufacturing discharge member, mold for injection molding, and discharge member with closing member" was invented by Toru Ichikawa (Tokyo), Takayuki Kotani (Tokyo) and Tomonari Shinohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discharge member used for discharging contents accommodated in a container includes: an attachment part to be attached to the container; and a tubular part that is formed into a tubular shape, through which the contents from the container pass, the tubular part being provided with a tu...