ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,711, issued on July 15, was assigned to GSI Outdoors Inc. (Spokane, Wash.).
"Multi-vessel insulator and carrier" was invented by Trevor Tollefsbol (Couer D'Alene, Idaho), Ian Scott (Spokane Valley, Wash.), Kurt Gauss (Spokane, Wash.), Don Scott (Spokane, Wash.) and Tom Hathaway (Spokane, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for containing, positioning and thermally insulating plural axially aligned beverage containers provides an elongate body, a retention collar that is threadably engaged with the body, a handle carried by the body and a puck that is movable, by a user, between a first position adjacent to an opening of...