US Patent Issued to Abbott Laboratories on Oct. 14 for "Containers and caps having ket rings for enabling removal of liquid contents of a container" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,829, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Ill.).

"Containers and caps having ket rings for enabling removal of liquid contents of a container" was invented by Roger W. Accurso (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cradles for draining liquid from containers are described herein. An example apparatus includes a housing having a bottom wall, a side wall and an open top. The housing is to receive a container having liquid. The example apparatus includes a probe extending upward from the bottom wall toward the open top and is to drain the liquid from the container when the probe is inserted into ...