US Patent Issued to Alterno Labs d.o.o. on Sept. 23 for "Pre-filled drinking straw with a cross-slit valve closure on both ends" (Slovene, Slovenian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,451, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Alterno Labs d.o.o. (Ljubljana-Crnuce, Slovenia).

"Pre-filled drinking straw with a cross-slit valve closure on both ends" was invented by Boris Nolimal (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is characterized in that the straw body (1) is consisting of two or more segments, which are attached together with connection (5) and that the straw body (1) on its both ends has a cross-slit valve (2, 3) closure and the valves (2, 3) and the straw body (1) are integrated by molecular adhesion. The inlet and outlet valves (2, 3) are of a slit type. The straw body (1) is prefer...