ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,232, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SHYA HSIN PACKAGING INDUSTRY (CHINA) Co. LTD. (Kunshan, China).

"Paste container" was invented by Cuihong Yang (Kunshan, China) and Ming Lyu (Kunshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paste container includes a lid, an inner bottle, a stopper, a threaded rod, a pedestal, and an inner lid fixed at a top of the inner bottle, where a bottom of the lid is detachably connected to the pedestal; the stopper is provided in the inner bottle and circumferentially fixed with the inner bottle; the threaded rod includes a bottom circumferentially fixed with the pedestal, and a top extending into a fir...