US Patent Issued to Runway Blue on Sept. 16 for "Drinking vessel with closure assembly" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,662, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Runway Blue LLC (Lehi, Utah).

"Drinking vessel with closure assembly" was invented by David O. Meyers (Layton, Utah), Jim Allen Colby (Highland, Utah), John R. Omdahl II (Lindon, Utah), Timothy Tyler Bond (Provo, Utah) and Steven M. Sorensen (Alpine, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drinking vessel including a beverage container and a closure assembly attachable to the beverage container. The beverage container has a spout defining a first drinking opening and a second drinking opening. The closure assembly includes a positioning member and a sealing member. When the positioning member i...