ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,125, issued on April 29, was assigned to Kura Sushi Inc..
"Connector" was invented by Kunihiko Tanaka (Osaka, Japan), Tadanori Sugimoto (Sakai, Japan) and Hidetoshi Nakamura (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector connects two containers to each other, each of the two containers being configured to house a plate on which a food or a drink is placed and being conveyed on a conveying path. The connector includes: a pair of attachment portions each of which is attached to a respective one of the two containers; and a connecting portion that is configured to connect the attachment portions to each other. The connecting po...