ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,728, issued on April 21, was assigned to APTAR FRANCE SAS (Le Neubourg, France).

"Priming cap for a device for dispensing a fluid product" was invented by Ludovic Petit (Vitot, France), Sebastien Michaux (Le Petit Quevilly, France), Fabien Adam (Aviron, France) and Yann Ghafourzadeh (Congers, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Priming cap intended to cover, in a closure position, a dispensing head of a device for dispensing fluid product, the dispensing head having an axial end wall provided with a dispensing orifice, the priming cap having a mechanism for trapping fluid in order, in the closure position, to receive and retain flui...