ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,635, issued on Sept. 22.
"Pack-based holder for bottle or other elongate object" was invented by Robert Williams (Edwards, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pack-based holder includes a spine, a collar, and an arm. The collar can be attached to the spine and arranged to reduce movement of an object placed therein in a direction away from the longitudinal axis of the spine. The arm can be movably coupled to the spine and can move between an open position and a closed position. The arm can restrain gravitational movement of the object in the closed position, and in the open position, the arm does not restrain gravitational moveme...