ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,482, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).
"Structure for sealing and dispensing cleaning articles" was invented by JongSoo Jacob Lee (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Ming-Huang Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Traneil C. Morgan (Woodstock, Ga.), Thomas H. Schulz (Roswell, Ga.) and Ning Yang (Suwanee, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing and dispensing structure for a container for storing and dispensing cleaning articles includes a sealing and dispensing structure. The sealing and dispensing structure includes a floor defining a bottom of the sealing and dispensing structure and a perimetric flange adjoine...