ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,821, issued on March 3, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).
"Locking assembly for a micro puree machine" was invented by Nathan Lyell (Surrey, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Micro puree machines have a locking assembly for locking a container to a coupling on the machine, preventing the container from rotating out of the coupling during processing. The locking assembly includes at least one protrusion on the container configured to slidably engage a slot on an interior surface of the coupling when the container is rotated in a clockwise direction. The coupling has a clip that is moveable from a fi...