ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,695, issued on May 20.
"System and method for constructing a three-dimensional discard cup" was invented by Daniel Doutt (Farmington, Utah), Cameron J Nielsen (Orem, Utah) and Brandon Dalton (Provo, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of manufacture for use in constructing a three-dimensional discard cup comprising a substantially square flexible substrate having a front side and back side, a first corner, a second corner, a third corner and a fourth corner. A center and two pairs of opposing corners, wherein the flexible substrate having diagonal mirror image cut lines in the shape of an L, a score line diagonal near the ...