US Patent Issued to SHAPIRO SALES on April 8 for "Container assembly with integrated fluid removal" (Missouri, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,664, issued on April 8, was assigned to SHAPIRO SALES COMPANY (St. Louis).

"Container assembly with integrated fluid removal" was invented by Steven Mitchell (Ava, Mo.), Ron Fleetwood (Ava, Mo.), Michael Hadley (Seymour, Mo.) and Ricky Alvarez (Columbia, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container assembly includes a container, a flow channel, and a suction assembly. The container defines a cavity configured to receive a fluid therein. The container includes an interior surface along the cavity and an exterior surface outside of the cavity. The interior surface defines a lower hole, and the exterior surface defines an upper hole ...