US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Nov. 25 for "Heat retaining container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,648, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Heat retaining container" was invented by Mitoko Ishita (Shiga, Japan), Hideji Kawarazaki (Osaka, Japan) and Masahiro Kagimoto (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat retaining container (70) includes: an accommodating space (71); and walls (72) including inner surfaces surrounding the accommodating space (71). Heat conductivity of each wall (72) in a surface direction is higher than heat conductivity of the wall (72) in a thickness direction orthogonal to the inner surface of the wall, the surface direction being ...