US Patent Issued to Tomas Nejedlik on Dec. 2 for "Wooden cask for storing and aging wine and other beverages" (Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,482, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Tomas Nejedlik (Velke Losiny, Czech Republic).

"Wooden cask for storing and aging wine and other beverages" was invented by Ladislav Vanek (Blansko Klepacov, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wooden cask for storing and aging wine. The cask may comprise a top panel, a bottom panel, a front panel, a rear panel and two side panels assembled together to define an internal storage volume. The cask may further comprise at least two associated pairs of vertical beams forming a buttress against external faces of two opposite side panels, and at least two compression rods per an associated ...