{
  "patent_number": "US 11993444",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How to Build a Shock-Absorbing Shipping Box",
  "original_title": "Shipping container systems",
  "summary": "A design for a shipping box that uses special tabs and accordion-style folds to keep an inner product compartment suspended away from the outer box walls, protecting fragile items from impacts.",
  "what_it_does": "This system creates a protective buffer zone around a product by nesting an inner compartment inside an outer shipping container. The inner compartment features a series of physical tabs—retention, support, and space tabs—that act as spacers to ensure the inner box never touches the outer box's walls, base, or lid. Additionally, the lid of the inner compartment includes accordion-folded suspension units that provide flexible cushioning at the ends of the container. This arrangement ensures that if the outer box is dropped or bumped, the shock is absorbed by the air gaps and the structural tabs rather than being transferred directly to the product inside.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover standard shipping containers that lack the specific internal suspension tabs and accordion-fold mechanisms.",
    "Does not cover packing methods that rely on loose-fill materials like foam peanuts or bubble wrap.",
    "Does not cover electronic or active shock-absorption systems that use sensors or motorized dampeners."
  ],
  "filed": "2023-09-08",
  "granted": "2024-05-28",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Individual",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/individual",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Brent Michael Comerford",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/brent-michael-comerford"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 0,
  "tags": [
    "mechanical",
    "consumer_electronics",
    "ecommerce"
  ],
  "abstract": "There is disclosed a shipping container system comprising an outer container and a product compartment inside the outer container, wherein the product compartment comprises a product compartment base and a product compartment lid, wherein the product compartment base comprises a plurality of retention tabs maintaining a cushion gap between the product compartment and sidewalls of the outer container, a plurality of support tabs maintaining a cushion gap between the product compartment and a base of the outer container, and a pair of suspension units maintaining a cushion gap between the product compartment and each end of a pair of opposing ends of the outer container, and wherein the product compartment lid includes a plurality of space tabs maintaining a cushion gap between the product compartment and a lid of the outer container, wherein the cushion gaps are maintained between the product compartment and the outer container when the outer container is in a closed configuration.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/11993444/starship-mars-base-alpha",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/11993444/starship-mars-base-alpha/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US11993444",
  "relatedPatents": []
}