US Patent Issued to YETI Coolers on June 23 for "Resealable closure for a container" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,901, issued on June 23, was assigned to YETI Coolers LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Resealable closure for a container" was invented by Isabelle Cochran (Austin, Texas), John Warren Dow (Austin, Texas), Andy Bondhus (Austin, Texas), Mark D. Miller (San Marcos, Texas), William Drinkwater (Austin, Texas), Xi Huang (Xiamen, China), Quan Xiao (Xiamen, China) and Fuzhen Lai (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container device may have an outer shell that has an opening that is sealed by a closure mechanism. The closure mechanism may include resealable closure elements that are configured to partially or wholly seal the opening. In some...