ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,007, issued on April 1, was assigned to YOSHINO KOGYOSHO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Delamination container" was invented by Takanori Suzuki (Tokyo) and Seiichi Asaoka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container with separable laminated layers includes an outer layer body, an inner layer body separably laminated on an inner surface of the outer layer body and capable of undergoing volume reduction and deformation, and an ambient air inlet extending between the outer layer body and the inner layer body. The container has a bottle shape with a tubular mouth, a shoulder that is continuous with the mouth, a trunk that is continuous with the...