US Patent Issued to H.J. Heinz Company Brands on July 21 for "Container, closure, and methods for manufacture" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,535, issued on July 21, was assigned to H.J. Heinz Co. Brands LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Container, closure, and methods for manufacture" was invented by Balint Hiltser (Lent, Netherlands), Jonathan Ralph de Jong (Arnhem, Netherlands), Geert Petrus Jacobus Scholte (Roggel, Netherlands), Bastiaan Pieter Hemmes (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Fredrik Cornelis Stam (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Charlotte Catherine Erik Devries (Ede, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods provided herein are useful for dispensing a fluid from a bottle that includes a closure cap with a flip-top lid, a base, and a tamper ...