ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,386, issued on July 21, was assigned to GEKA GmbH (Bechhofen, Germany).
"Applicator unit" was invented by Erika Von Jan (Roth, Germany) and Josef Moser (Unterkulm, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An applicator unit includes an applicator and a fluid in the form of a flowable cosmetic or pharmaceutical to be applied to skin or hair, with an applicator organ which stores the fluid in an interior and is configured to distribute the fluid after release thereof, the applicator organ being a hollow body with a wall which delimits the interior and which is formed by a network of locally interconnected ribs, the interconnected rib...