US Patent Issued to YETI Coolers on March 31 for "Lid assembly for beverage container" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,919, issued on March 31, was assigned to YETI Coolers LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Lid assembly for beverage container" was invented by Hector Barea (Austin, Texas) and Dustin R. Bullock (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lid assembly for a beverage container includes an upper adapter and a lower adapter. The lid assembly may move between a closed configuration and an open configuration by rotating the upper adapter relative to the lower adapter. In some examples, the upper adapter may include a puck that is inserted into a receiver at a bottom of the upper adapter, where the puck has a tab that contacts a stop on the lower ad...