ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,887, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).
"Cover" was invented by Kazuki Itabashi (Aichi, Japan), Takuya Tokunaga (Novi, Mich.) and Dahsel Darius Bak (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cover is capable of covering an object by locking first locking portions and second locking portions to each other in a state where a lower end edge of a first cover body and an upper end edge of a second cover body abut. The first cover body includes a pair of first slits formed on both sides of the first locking portion and extending in a direction intersecting the lower end edge starting from the lower e...