ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,031, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to YETI Coolers LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Portable cooler" was invented by Clayton Alexander (Westlake Village, Calif.), Daren John Leith (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Mikko Juhani Timperi (Los Angeles), Christopher Thomas Wakeham (Solana Beach, Calif.), Rahul Mulinti (Westlake Village, Calif.), Jacob William Emmert (Westchester, Calif.) and Paul Thomas Gurney (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable cooler container system is described. The cooler container system includes a container body having a payload chamber, a lid operable to access the payload chamber, and a phase change material bet...