US Patent Issued to Origin Materials Operating, Packsys Global on Aug. 4 for "Device for folding of an edge portion of a closure cap" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,787, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Origin Materials Operating Inc. (West Sacramento, Calif.) and Packsys Global AG (Switzerland).

"Device for folding of an edge portion of a closure cap" was invented by Jay Clarke Hanan (Glendora, Calif.), Rachel Egan Hess (Bethesda, Md.), Pascal Schaad (Bettlach, Switzerland), Paul Flukiger (Heimberg, Switzerland) and Julius Laubli (Jona, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for folding an edge portion (72) along a circumferential direction of a mantle of a closure cap (70) for a container, for forming a retaining ring on the closure cap (70), comprises a first transport device for...