ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,710, issued on July 1, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU POLYMER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Storage container and manufacturing method of the same" was invented by Seiya Nakarai (Saitama, Japan), Osamu Ogawa (Saitama, Japan), Kiminori Tominaga (Niigata, Japan), Shinichi Ohori (Niigata, Japan) and Tadahiko Ishizawa (Niigata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage container with improved strength and airtightness, and a method for manufacturing the storage container are provided. The storage container includes, as a functional resin member, an insert component for a container body insert-molded with a molding material containing predetermined r...