ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,055, issued on June 24.

"Sleeves for cups and other containers, and methods of manufacturing same" was invented by Jared Domingos (Scotia, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sleeves for containers (e.g., cups), and methods of manufacturing such sleeves, are presented. The sleeves are configured to be utilized as a thermal protective and liquid absorbent container/cup sleeve, or as a napkin, towel or the like. The sleeves are selectively manually configurable between the container/cup sleeve and napkin configurations. When configured as a container/cup sleeve, the sleeve is formed of at least one sheet of material that is freely fold...