ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,026, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to OHKI Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Drip bag" was invented by Mitsunori Saitoh (Takatsuki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drip bag includes a bag main body formed of a water permeable filter sheet and hooking members made of a thin plate-like material on two opposite outer surfaces. Each hooking member includes upper bonded, central, and a pair of arm portions from the central to toward the upper bonded portion, and a pair of hooking portions. The arm portions are spaced apart from each other with a bag main body width center line between them. Each hooking portion extends downward and is not ...