US Patent Issued to Op-Hygiene IP on April 21 for "Fluid dispenser with frangible sealing element" (Canadian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,015, issued on April 21, was assigned to Op-Hygiene IP GmbH (Niederbipp, Switzerland).

"Fluid dispenser with frangible sealing element" was invented by Heiner Ophardt (Arisdorf, Switzerland), Andrew Jones (St. Anns, Canada) and Tony Shi (Hamilton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid dispenser including a fluid reservoir containing a supply of a fluid, and a fluid pump that is removably attached to the fluid reservoir. The fluid pump has a frangible sealing element and a pump engagement feature. The fluid reservoir has a reservoir engagement feature that is configured to engage with the pump engagement feature on applicatio...