US Patent Issued to Timothy B. Higginson on Sept. 23 for "Deformable hybrid rigid structure vessels" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,007, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Timothy B. Higginson (Cohasset, Mass.).

"Deformable hybrid rigid structure vessels" was invented by Timothy B. Higginson (Cohasset, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container vessel is described that includes a resiliently deformable wall having a surface area where a majority of the surface area is occupied by a plurality of rigid panes connected by a resilient flexible membrane so that the wall is capable of recovering to an original shape after substantial deformation in either or both a vertical dimension and a horizontal dimension by the application of external pressure and. The pr...