US Patent Issued on Sept. 22 for "Randomized message urn" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,908, issued on Sept. 22.

"Randomized message urn" was invented by Elizabeth Risner (Brentwood, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A randomized message urn includes a first compartment, a second compartment, a die, and a view window. The first compartment is designed to contain ashes of a cremated being. The second compartment contains a liquid and includes an orifice. The die is freely floating in the liquid and includes a plurality of faces, each having text, an image, or a combination of text and an image thereon. The view window is positioned at the orifice of the second compartment to close the second compartment and permit vi...