US Patent Issued to Spectrum Brands on Jan. 13 for "Anti-cavitation blender with vertical jar actuation" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,969, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Spectrum Brands Inc. (Middleton, Wis.).

"Anti-cavitation blender with vertical jar actuation" was invented by Kroy Everett Nernberger (Madison, Wis.), Steven James Buth (Deforest, Wis.), Matthew Joseph Quock (Middleton, Wis.), Matthew James Hamilton (McFarland, Wis.), David William Everett Jr. (Verona, Wis.) and Daniel Richard Strong (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food preparation appliance, such as a blending, mixing, or food processing appliance, allows for rotatable blade movement by a drive and/or driven shaft relative to a jar holding contents along with movement of the ja...