ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,807, issued on March 11, was assigned to NIHON TAISHIN SEKKEI Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Simple shelter for flood evacuation" was invented by Akihiro Noguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simple shelter for flood evacuation that is lightweight and easy to carry, compact in storage, and low in cost includes a substantially cylindrical floating body formed by a plurality of floats stacked in a vertical direction, where vertically adjacent floats are connected to each other; and two partition plates provided on the inner peripheral side of the uppermost and lowermost floats, respectively, of the plurality of floats, the inner periphe...