ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,682, issued on April 22, was assigned to Shantou Lansibaidi Clothing Co. Ltd. (Shantou, China).

"Storage box" was invented by Jialin Li (Shantou, China) and Jieya Wang (Shantou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage box includes an upper cover, a lower cover, a drying support member and a shaft sleeve mechanism. The shaft sleeve mechanism includes a key shaft, an upper cover shaft sleeve, a lower cover shaft sleeve and an drying support member shaft sleeve matched with the key shaft, and the key shaft includes a lower cover shaft sleeve adaptation section, an upper cover shaft sleeve adaptation section and a drying support me...