ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,355, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Scosche Industries Inc. (Oxnard, Calif.).

"Container magnetic device mount" was invented by Kasidy Alves (Oxnard, Calif.), Vince Alves (Oxnard, Calif.) and Yasuhiro Yamamoto (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container magnetic mount for a device has a container lid defined by a rim cylindrical wall, a top, and a lid joint element. A lever arm has an arm joint element in rotating engagement with the container lid. The lid joint element and the lever arm joint element define a dynamic coupling with the lever arm being orientable between one or more arbitrary raised positions...