ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,396, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Silipint Partners LLC (Indianapolis).
"Silicone water bottle" was invented by Jiale Luo (Guangdong, China), Qiong Li (Guangdong, China), Forrest Hoffman (Guangdong, China), Reimann William James (Guangdong, China), Qiang Gao (Guangdong, China) and Todd Spang (Indianapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bottle assembly includes a beverage receptacle defining a receptacle cavity and a rim section positioned at a distal end of the beverage receptacle. The rim section includes an inner rim surface and one or more sealing rings extending from the inner rim surface. The bottle assembly also include...