ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,821, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to VB Creative LLC (Maplewood, N.J.).

"Modular cosmetic container assembly" was invented by Michael Adams (Maplewood, N.J.) and Viktorija Adams (Maplewood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular cosmetic container assembly includes a base having a bottom wall and a plurality of sidewalls defining an insert receiving space, and a plurality of inserts removably insertable into the insert receiving space. Each of the inserts has a same plurality of outer dimensions and at least one well. The inserts differ in a number of the wells in each of the inserts. The insert receiving space is sized to re...