ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,085, issued on March 3, was assigned to PepsiCo Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Container for dosing a flowable solid" was invented by Xavier Cortadellas (Hallandale Beach, Fla.), Syed Peer (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Toby Richard David Wingfield (Crystal Lake, Ill.), Albert Kwak (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Charles Simon Paradise (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Emma Pearl Willmer-Shiles (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to a container for dispensing equal doses of a flowable solid. The container may include a body defining an interior volume including a storage volume, an outlet passage, and a dosing chamber in communication wi...