ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,051, issued on March 18, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Blender system with vibration proof seal" was invented by Yaoming Deng (Guangdong, China), Kevin Pei (Guangdong, China), Kai Zhou (Guangdong, China), Gang Chen (Guangdong, China), Edward Lockyer (Pimlico, Great Britain), Sam Bannister (Kent, Great Britain), Matthew P. Roberts (Needham, Mass.) and Nicholas Michael O'Loughlin (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container (32) includes a sealable body including a chamber (42), at least one opening formed in the sealable body, and a vacuum sealing assembly (52) mounted to the sealable body adjac...