ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,285, issued on June 23, was assigned to I.G.B. S.r.l. (Milan).

"Child-proof container and process of making the same" was invented by Alessio Bressan (Varese, Italy), Michel Bressan (Induno Olona, Italy) and Alberto Gandolla (Induno Olona, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A child-proof container including a storage for housing a product and a closure system that defines a closure condition and an open condition of the container. The container has a first coupling portion carried by the closure system and a second coupling portion carried by the storage which cooperates with the first coupling portion to define a locking condition...