ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,099, issued on March 24.
"Hive helper" was invented by Larry D. Beck (Ferndale, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for holding a liquid sample, the assembly comprising a cup for holding a liquid and a chamber assembly, The chamber assembly comprises: a cap configured to be removably joined to the cup and to close the cup when joined to the cup; a chamber joined to the cap and having an open top end above the cap, the chamber traversing the cap and extending from the open top end to a bottom end below the cap, such that when the cap is joined to the cup, the bottom end of chamber is located inside the cup, the first cha...