ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,138, issued on May 27, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Container and container product" was invented by Yumiko Kishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takayuki Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshishige Fujii (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container includes: a container body; a cap to seal the container body; an identification code on a top surface of the cap; and multiple concaves on the container body. The multiple concaves on the container body forms a first image having a first area, the identification code on the cap forms a second image having a second area smaller than the first area, the container body has a ...