ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,270, issued on May 26, was assigned to ALPLA WERKE ALWIN GMBH & Co. (Hard, Austria).
"Container closure" was invented by Jurgen Bickel (Dornbirn, Austria) and Franz-Michael Lasser (Lochau, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a container closure for closing a pouring opening of a container which is filled with a liquid, having: a closure cap, which has a free edge, a shell and a top plate; a tamper-evident ring, which is designed to be retained form-fittingly on a container neck of the container; and a retaining element having a first and a second end, the first end being firmly connected to the free edge of...