ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,967, issued on July 14.

"Modular drinkware" was invented by Zheng Wang (Aurora, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular drinkware system includes a beverage container, a plurality of modules and in some embodiments, a software application. Each module is preferably reusable and able to be used alone with the beverage container or combined and connected to each other using mechanical connectors. Further, each module can be connected together electrically so that sensor data (or other data) can be shared between the modules and an external computing device via the software application. The plurality of modules apply a variety o...