US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security on Oct. 14 for "Container apparatus and method" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,517, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington).

"Container apparatus and method" was invented by John F. Jasinski Jr. (Hammonton, N.J.) and Lee J. Spanier (Linwood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a bin prowl apparatus comprises a bin prowl including a distal end and a proximal end. The proximal end has a proximal width which is at least ten times larger than a distal width of the distal end. The proximal end is configured to be connected with a front wall of a bin. The proximal width of the proximal end is at le...