ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,949, issued on March 31, was assigned to KOSME S.R.L. UNIPERSONALE (Roverbella, Italy).

"Retaining unit for retaining a container and retaining device and apparatus comprising said retaining unit" was invented by Dejan Jeremic (Maria-Anzbach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retaining unit (1) for retaining a container (4), comprising a supporting body (7), mountable on a movement unit (5), a gripping element (8) and a resting element (9) mounted on the supporting body (7), The gripping element (8) comprises a first arm (10) and a second arm (11), comprising respective gripping portions delimiting a housing (14) for the cont...