US Patent Issued to S. C. Johnson & Son on Feb. 10 for "System and methods for storing and dispensing a flowable material" (Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,101, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to S. C. Johnson & Son Inc. (Racine, Wis.).

"System and methods for storing and dispensing a flowable material" was invented by William J. Rice (Antioch, Ill.), Douglas A. Soller (Racine, Wis.), Steven A. Zach (Waterford, Wis.), James Paul Orrico (Evanston, Ill.), Mario M. Orrico (Chicago) and Harbinder S. Pordal (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for applying a flowable material to a surface that includes an applicator and a storage pod is disclosed. The storage pod may have a housing and a lid that engage each other to form an interior cavity that contains a flowable material. ...