US Patent Issued to Runway Blue on April 7 for "Beverage container lid with magnetic sealing mechanism" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,099, issued on April 7, was assigned to Runway Blue LLC (Lehi, Utah).

"Beverage container lid with magnetic sealing mechanism" was invented by David O. Meyers (Layton, Utah), Paul James Faerber (Orem, Utah) and Quincy A. Kesti (Lehi, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lid for a container including a lid body, a movable arm, a first magnet unit coupled to the movable arm, an actuator, and a second magnet unit coupled to the actuator. The actuator is movable between a first and second position. The movable arm is movable between a sealing position, in which a drinking opening of the lid body is sealed, and an open position, in which...