ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,848, issued on March 25, was assigned to ZHUHAI NINESTAR MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Consumable package assembly" was invented by Weijian Chen (Guangdong, China) and Huafeng Zhang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a consumable package assembly including a consumable container and an outer packaging portion. The consumable container includes a chip, and the outer packaging portion includes an accommodating portion for accommodating the consumable container. The outer packaging portion includes a first through hole configured to expose at least a part of the chip, and a second through hole confi...