ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,472, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MIRAIAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Substrate storing container" was invented by Tsuyoshi Nagashima (Tokyo) and Ryuuji Fukuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention comprises: a container body; a lid; a lid-side substrate support capable of supporting edges of substrates when a container body opening is closed by the lid; a rear-side substrate support that is disposed as a counterpart of the lid-side substrate support in a substrate housing space, is capable of supporting the edges of the substrates, and supports the substrates in a state in which the edges of the substrates are a...