ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,991, issued on June 17, was assigned to YETI Coolers LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Portable cooler" 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.), Paul Thomas Gurney (Irvine, Calif.) and Simon David James (Simi Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable cooler container includes a container body with a payload chamber. The container body has an insulated vessel and a temperature control system th...