ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,767, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NIFCO INC. (Yokosuka, Japan) and KYOTECH Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Drinking container holding device" was invented by Takaya Ogawa (Yokosuka, Japan), Masataka Saotome (Yokosuka, Japan), Masao Toda (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazuhiko Miyamoto (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a drinking container holding device that is configured to heat the drinking container. The drinking container holding device includes a plastic holder configured to hold a drinking container on the inner side of the holder, a sheet-like heat transfer element located on the outer side of the holder and having...