US Patent Issued to OP-Hygiene IP on June 16 for "Fluid storage reservoir" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. RE50,918, issued on June 16, was assigned to OP-Hygiene IP GmbH (Niederbipp, Switzerland).

"Fluid storage reservoir" was invented by Heiner Ophardt (Arisdorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of storing a product that contains a volatile component within a fluid storage reservoir formed with enclosing walls having a permeability that permits limited passage of the volatile component from the storage reservoir to the atmosphere, preferably with the method increasing the shelf life of the product stored, and a fluid storage reservoir with a first container containing the fluid product to be dispensed including the volatile ...