ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,284, issued on June 30, was assigned to Lagom Kitchen Co. (Los Angeles).

"Drying devices including a rotatable interior container" was invented by David Shark Tong (San Diego) and Jahaan Saini (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Food drying devices (e.g., salad spinners) include an outer housing and a perforated inner container rotatably supported within the outer housing. An inner cover closes the inner container, and this inner cover includes a first part of a rotation producing system that rotates the inner container with respect to the outer housing. An outer cover closes the outer housing. The outer cover include...