ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,926, issued on May 27, was assigned to JDS Industries Inc. (Sioux Falls, S.D.).
"Beverage container with convertible configuration" was invented by Scott Sletten (Sioux Falls, S.D.) and Russ Paul Odens (Sioux Falls, S.D.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A convertible beverage container may have a base structure having an interior configured to hold a liquid, and a lid structure removably mountable on the base structure over an open top to selectively close the open top. The lid structure may have a mounted condition characterized by the beverage container being able to at least partially retain a liquid in the interior of the base stru...