US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Industries on July 1 for "Storage container for tab lead, and combination of tab lead and storage container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,458, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Storage container for tab lead, and combination of tab lead and storage container" was invented by Nozomi Onaka (Tochigi, Japan) and Noriaki Abe (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container for a tab lead includes a main body part configured to contain a plurality of tab leads and a cover part configured to cover the main body part. The main body part has a pocket that has an inverted quadrangular pyramidal trapezoid shape having a bottom surface and four side surfaces, in which an area of an opening at an upper end of the pocket is...