ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,423, issued on May 27, was assigned to Busy Baby LLC (Oronoco, Minn.).
"Bib and utensil kit" was invented by Beth Benike (Oronoco, Minn.), Alex Coffey (West Valley City, Utah), Luke Gonos (West Valley City, Utah), Aaron Nelson (West Valley City, Utah) and Eric Fynbo (Savage, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a kit includes a bib having a protective surface and a bib-coupling point; at least one eating utensil having a working end and a retention end, where the retention end includes a utensil-coupling point; and a tether having a first anchor end having a first coupling point that is configured to releasab...