US Patent Issued on Sept. 1 for "Bag with opening mechanism" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,409, issued on Sept. 1.

"Bag with opening mechanism" was invented by Jordan Welling (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bag with an interior space and an opening includes an opening mechanism comprising a frame structure in communication with the opening, a biasing mechanism adapted to apply a biasing force to the frame structure to move the frame structure from a closed position to an open position, and a latching mechanism adapted to latch the frame structure in the closed position when engaged and to allow the frame structure to move by the biasing force to the open position when disengaged. Movement of the frame stru...