ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,650, issued on April 15, was assigned to PMH Systems A/S (Denmark).

"Box for use as a coffin" was invented by Peter Madsen (Ringsted, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A box (200) is disclosed. The box is manufactured from a first part (2), a second part (4) and a third part (6) of a sheet material, which parts have been subjected to gluing to each other with adhesive (8) so as to form a box shape; wherein said first part (2) of said sheet material represents a bottom portion (10), a first side portion (12) and a second side portion (14) of said box, respectively, as a coherent entity; wherein said second part (4) and said third ...