US Patent Issued on Aug. 26 for "Dual-purpose container closure" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,977, issued on Aug. 26.

"Dual-purpose container closure" was invented by Jason Ashton (Watsonville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closure for a beverage container has a body having an attachment interface to engage to a top of a beverage container, a sealed, elongated enclosure attached to an underside of the body, and a single access element adapted to selectively open and close either a first opening passing through the body into the sealed, elongated enclosure or a second opening passing through the body directly to an inner volume of the beverage container."

The patent was filed on Jan. 3, 2023, under Application No. 1...