US Patent Issued to BERRY GLOBAL on April 14 for "Package and closure for package" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,528, issued on April 14, was assigned to BERRY GLOBAL INC. (Evansville, Ind.).

"Package and closure for package" was invented by Daniel A. Bloom (Bowling Green, Ohio) and Kenneth S. Bloom (Bloomdale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package includes a container and a closure. The container includes a container body having a sidewall and a floor coupled to a lower end of the sidewall and a filler neck coupled to an upper end of the sidewall and spaced apart from the floor. The closure includes a top wall formed to include a product-dispensing outlet and an annular skirt coupled to the top wall and extending in a downward directi...