US Patent Issued to AptarGroup on Oct. 20 for "Actuator for dispensing a fluent product" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,423, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AptarGroup Inc. (Crystal Lake, Ill.).

"Actuator for dispensing a fluent product" was invented by Sean Cho (Elgin, Ill.) and Gregory Erickson (Wheaton, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved actuator for actuating a container of a pressurized fluent product includes a body having a dispensing flow path to direct a pressurized fluent product from the container to an exterior of the actuator via an exit orifice located at an end of the flow path. The body further includes a front exterior face located adjacent to the exit orifice and a hollow extension defining a portion of the flow path ...