US Patent Issued to YETI Coolers on April 21 for "Tote bag" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,952, issued on April 21, was assigned to YETI Coolers LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Tote bag" was invented by Roy Joseph Seiders (Austin, Texas), Dustin Bullock (Austin, Texas) and John W. Dow (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bag including a shell defining a sidewall, an upper portion, a rim, an opening, a front, a back, and a lower portion, wherein the opening is configured to allow access to a storage compartment, a semi-rigid base defining a bottom of the bag, wherein the shell and the semi-rigid base form the storage compartment, and a first internal divider panel attached to the sidewall and configured to transition from...