As a parent professional I would like to say that there are many many flaws with the patent system, however, the one asserted in this article, namely that patent applications judge the inventor rather than the invention, is stupid as hell. This article is a total waste of time.
Used a bunch of assumptions like keeping a normal shape and no thermal resistance from the glass and no heat transfer from the bottom and came to the conclusion that regular beer glasses are fine. No, they didn’t even show what the “optimal” beer glass looked like.