ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,650, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ardagh Metal Beverage Holdings Germany GmbH (Bonn, Germany).

"Closure assembly for a beverage container and method for repeatably closing a beverage container by means of a closure assembly" was invented by Udo Jobges (Duren, Germany), Hajo Rieck (Hennef, Germany) and Peter Gonnert (Ostheim v.d. Rhon, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closure assembly for a beverage container includes: a lid having an opening and a closure for repeatably closing the opening, the closure element-being disposed on the lid; wherein the opening has an opening edge and an opening plane formed by the opening e...