ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,691, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dare LLC (Jamestown, N.C.).

"Scraping device for removing substances from the interior surface of containers" was invented by Ivana Korankyi (Jamestown, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scraping device for removing dry substances that have adhered to the interior surface laboratory vessel. The scraping device comprising a handle, a curved hook, a ribbed edge, an elbow joint, and a scraping tip. The hook part of the scraping device conforms to the curvature of the interior surface of a round laboratory vessel such as a volumetric flask, Florence flask, and round bottom flasks. The elbow joint...