ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,383, issued on April 15.

"Temporarily mutually connectable cups for efficiently serving drinks and food" was invented by David Immanuel Kunst (Rijssen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Temporarily mutually connectable cups for efficiently serving all kinds of beverages and foods such as granular food, crisps, sauces, soup, and yoghurt. The cups have special fully integrated hook elements in the cup wall or on the handles with stabilizing thumb holding parts and the wall (2) has a thickness d. With the integrated hook elements several surrounding cups are temporarily mutually connected with a central cup to form a group of se...