US Patent Issued on Oct. 7 for "Food service box" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,879, issued on Oct. 7.

"Food service box" was invented by James Colston Elder Jr. (Nashville, Tenn.), Zachary Michael Ciulis (Antioch, Tenn.) and Eric Dana Roth (Old Hickory, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is drawn to improved food service boxes that in one embodiment is a beverage supported food box that enables a user to hold a beverage and food item with one hand. Alternately the beverage supported food box may be supported by the beverage that is placed in a beverage holder. Further, the food box may serve as a makeshift table when the beverage is placed in a cup holder. This device solves the problem ...