ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,549, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cool Gear International LLC (Plymouth, Mass.).

"Container lid with rotatable sipper and flexible handle" was invented by Tyler Noveletsky (North Easton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container lid can include: a body having an opening formed therethrough; a sipping member rotatably coupled to the body, a passageway formed through an interior of the sipping member so as to extend from a proximal end of the sipping member to a distal end of the sipping member, the sipping member configured to rotate between a stowed position in which the passageway and the opening are misaligned, such th...