US Patent Issued to BERRY GLOBAL on Aug. 11 for "Tamper evident closure" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,551, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BERRY GLOBAL INC. (Evansville, Ind.).

"Tamper evident closure" was invented by Steven Daniel Gift (Lititz, Pa.) and Frank Allen Bond (York, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A child-resistant closure, comprising: an inner shell and an outer shell; wherein the inner shell includes at least one inner lug; wherein the outer shell includes at least one outer lug; wherein the outer lug is movable relative to the inner lug between an engaged position and a disengaged position; wherein in the disengaged position the outer lug is able to rotate past the inner lug when rotated in an opening direction; ...