ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,133, issued on Aug. 4.
"Self-opening and self-plugging bottle stopper" was invented by David Shabtay (RaAnana, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bottle stopper adapted for self-opening and self-plugging a bottle, comprising a cylindrical cover having a bottom end and a top end. The cylindrical cover is sized and shaped to plug a bottle. A cartridge is encompassed by the cylindrical cover and has a fluid chamber; the cartridge also has at least one lateral protrusion thereon to form between the cartridge and the cylindrical cover. There is at least one fluid channel for fluidly connecting between a space below the bottom end and ...