ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,183, issued on March 25, was assigned to Bags for Swag LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Methods and apparatus for bag with cooling element" was invented by Heather Dziedzic (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling bag according to various aspects of the present technology comprises a main body configured to form an interior receiving section. The main body may comprise front and rear panels and a bottom panel extending between the front and rear panels. At least one of the front, rear or bottom panels comprises a multi-layer structure comprising an external fabric layer; an interior liner; and a plurality of intermediate...