ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,817, issued on May 12.

"Dual spout cup" was invented by SiHua Huang (Yangjiang City, China), Desheng Deng (Yangjiang City, China), Yong Lin (Yangjiang City, China) and Yuan Yin (Yangjiang City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure discloses a dual spout cup comprising a cup body; a cup lid body, covering the cup body, a direct drinking channel and a sucking channel running through the cup lid body, a direct drinking spout being convexly provided around the direct drinking channel at an upper side of the cup lid body, the sucking channel being arranged at a rear side of the direct drinking spout; a flip-top structure, ha...