US Patent Issued to Draft Top on May 26 for "Container opener" (Vermont, New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,342, issued on May 26, was assigned to Draft Top Inc. (Ewing, N.J.).

"Container opener" was invented by Armand Joseph Ferranti (Long Branch, N.J.), Alexander Armand Caracappa (Medford, Mass.) and Lyra Turner (E. Montpelier, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container opener includes a clamp that holds a container; a puncturing device that punctures a lid of the container held in the clamp; a blade that cuts the lid from the container while the blade and the container rotate with respect to each other: and a separating device that separates the puncturing device from the lid."

The patent was filed on April 26, 2023, under Applicati...