US Patent Issued to The Coleman on May 19 for "Straw adapter with self-sealing valve for water bottles" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,973, issued on May 19, was assigned to The Coleman Co. Inc. (Wichita, Kan.).

"Straw adapter with self-sealing valve for water bottles" was invented by James Bergman (Sugar Grove, Ill.), Scott Kalisz (Seattle), Sichong Xia (Chicago), Anatoly Kalmanovsky (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Yuan Zhao Lian (Guangzhou, China) and Arnab Mallik (Palatine, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A straw adapter for coupling a straw to a water bottle lid is provided. The straw adapter may receive the straw in a cavity, and a protrusion of the straw adapter may be received by the lid. Retaining rings circumscribing the cavity and the protrusion may provide for ...