US Patent Issued to Atkins Nuclear Secured Holdings on July 14 for "Container closure device and method of operating the same" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,608, issued on July 14, was assigned to Atkins Nuclear Secured Holdings Corp. (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Container closure device and method of operating the same" was invented by Gordon Crawford (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and John Richardson (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lid assembly and a method for assembling the lid assembly. The lid assembly may include: an open-loop clamp band configured to secure the container lid to a container opening, the open-loop clamp band biased towards a closed position; and a closure assembly coupled to the open-loop clamp band. The closure assembly may include: a pair of lugs including a threa...