ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,493, issued on July 8, was assigned to YETI Coolers LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Portable container" was invented by Clayton Alexander (Westlake Village, Calif.), Daren John Leith (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Mikko Juhani Timperi (San Marcos, Calif.), Christopher Thomas Wakeham (Solana Beach, Calif.), Rahul Mulinti (Westlake Village, Calif.), Jacob William Emmert (Westchester, Calif.) and Paul Thomas Gurney (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable container has a payload chamber for holding medicines, vaccines, biological samples or other medical goods and a lid operable to access the payload chamber. The portable container also ...