ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,025, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to ZACROS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Plastic container" was invented by Atsushi Mio (Tokyo), Toyoaki Suzuki (Tokyo), Junpei Nomura (Tokyo) and Kaho Toyabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plastic container has superior storage stability for pharmaceutical ingredients exhibiting a high affinity to plastic and can be mass-produced at low cost. The container has a bag body formed into a bag shape by a sheet member with a storage part on the inside thereof, and a tubular port member attached to the bag body, wherein one end of the tubular port member communicates with the storage part and an opening part ...