US Patent Issued to CamelBak Products on April 22 for "Cap assembly for drink containers with a sliding switch" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,925, issued on April 22, was assigned to CamelBak Products LLC (Petaluma, Calif.).

"Cap assembly for drink containers with a sliding switch" was invented by Thomas R. Luhrs (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Ben Vierck (Petaluma, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Drink containers include a liquid container and a cap assembly removably coupled to the liquid container. Cap assemblies include a switch, a trigger and seal bar. Upon actuating the trigger the seal bar slides back to form a drink outlet opening in the cap assembly. To hold the seal bar in an open state without additional external force from the user, the switch is slid from an unl...