ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,841, issued on July 8, was assigned to MavorCo Operations LLC (New York).

"Blender with lid detection and override" was invented by Ryan Michael Pamplin (San Juan, Puerto Rico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blender with a touchscreen interface is provided to control different blending modes of operation. Exemplary implementations may: receive, by the touchscreen that is included in a control interface of the blender, a first type of user input and a second type of user input; obtain output signals generated by sensors; make detections regarding the user input received by the control interface of the blender; effectuate a transition ...