ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,550, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYO SEIKAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Preform of a can and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Hayato Fukumoto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preform of a can includes: a dome part being concave into the bottomed cylindrical body; and an annular leg part projecting in a direction opposite to a direction in which the dome part is concave, the dome part and the annular part being molded to form the preform of the can, and an inner surface of the dome part being pressed to mold a molded can. A maximum height of the preform of the can from a ground plane to the dome part i...