US Patent Issued to Husky Injection Molding Systems on Sept. 29 for "Closure with retaining ring and tamper evidence band" (Czech, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,076, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. (Bolton, Canada).

"Closure with retaining ring and tamper evidence band" was invented by Stephan Scherer (Trierweiler, Germany), Thomas Ara (Boucheporn, France) and Jaroslav Habich (Jindrichuv Hradec, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closure assembly for a carton, which includes a closure, a neck to which the closure is mounted and a cutter received within the neck for piercing a foil of the carton. The closure includes a retaining ring for securement around the container neck below an annular flange of the neck, a lid pivotally connected to...