ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,271, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. (Racine, Wis.).

"Storage bag with visually distinct features providing the bag with an asymmetric appearance" was invented by Brian C. Dais (Saginaw, Mich.), Imtiaz A. Musaliar (Racine, Wis.), Bunlim Ly (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jonathan David Horn (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Pamela J. Weisenberger (Racine, Wis.), Jose Porchia (Greenfield, Wis.), Charles P. Althoff (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Erica Eden Cohen (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage bag is provided with visually distinct features that facilitate opening and closing of the bag. The visually distinct features resul...