ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,816, issued on May 12.

"Container holding apparatus with spill prevention mechanism" was invented by Mirza Faizan (Plano, Texas), Iliyan Ali (Plano, Texas), Ali Naseem (Plano, Texas), Taarush Adhikari (Plano, Texas), Yara Wael Abo-Auda (Plano, Texas), Deen Adil Khan (Plano, Texas), Shrey Jain (Plano, Texas), Temitope Oluwaji (Plano, Texas), Tomisin Oluwaji (Plano, Texas), Rohan Vanama (Plano, Texas), Hidvika Dubey (Plano, Texas), Dhruva Kanthi (Plano, Texas), Saadia Asaf (Aligarh, India), Mansoor Hasan Khan (Aligarh, India) and Ayaan Ahmed (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is a container holding apparatus desi...