ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,205, issued on March 11, was assigned to EDK Holdings LTD. (Rochfort, Great Britain).

"Flame mitigation device for flammable fuel containers" was invented by Ryan Edkins (Rochfort, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flame mitigation device for flammable liquid containers includes a cylindrical body with vertical fine mesh screens in the air chamber and horizontal fine mesh screens in the fluid chamber. The air chamber and fluid chamber are separated so fluid and air do not mix or interfere with each other whilst fluid is being poured from the bottle, through the flame mitigation device. When attached to a flammable liqui...