US Patent Issued to BIVO on July 28 for "Sport water bottle with high flow rate" (Vermont, Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,051, issued on July 28, was assigned to BIVO LLC (Richmond, Vt.).

"Sport water bottle with high flow rate" was invented by Carina Mary Hamel (Richmond, Vt.), Robert Hart Ringer (Richmond, Vt.), Peter William Hazelett (Portland, Ore.), Casey J. Davis (Williamstown, Vt.), Christopher Ian Jones (Portland, Ore.), Daniel William Peter (Portland, Ore.) and Mark Callen Beard (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bottle assembly has a bottle and a removable cap. The cap includes a nozzle and a vent arrangement. The vent arrangement can include a vent conduit that extends into an air cavity present at the bottom of the bottle assembly whe...