ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,583, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SIG Services AG (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Resealable dispensing element for a cardboard/plastic composite package with a screw cap attached to it and method for mounting a screw cap" was invented by David Koller (Fislisbach, Switzerland) and Sven Himmelsbach (Stein am Rhein, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resealable dispensing element for a composite package is shown and described including a main body with a flange and a hollow cylindrical spout with at least one outer thread, an opening means guided movably in the spout for opening the composite package and a resea...