US Patent Issued to BlendTec on Nov. 3 for "Blender enclosure" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,350, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to BlendTec Inc. (Orem, Utah).

"Blender enclosure" was invented by David J. Throckmorton (Mapleton, Utah), Steven K. Atkinson (Lehi, Utah), Calvin Cox (Eagle Mountain, Utah) and Sam D. Olds (Provo, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blending apparatus can include: a blender jar defining a blending cavity; a lid positionable over the blender jar, the lid defining an opening into the blending cavity; a gasket positioned around a periphery of the opening in the lid; an enclosable sound dampener positionable around the blender jar and the lid, the enclosable sound dampener defining an access hole cor...