US Patent Issued to APTAR FRANCE on Sept. 9 for "Filling head for a device for dispensing a fluid product having a valve" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,959, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to APTAR FRANCE SAS (Le Neubourg, France).

"Filling head for a device for dispensing a fluid product having a valve" was invented by Philippe Le Faou (Ecully, France) and Benjamin Manon (Ecully, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filling head for a device having a valve with a valve shutter, the head having a body having a receiving space, a control member that slides in the body between rest and filling positions, the member having a channel that opens into the receiving space, a ring fixed to the member and cooperating with a spring disposed between the ring and the body, and a plate fixed...