ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,796, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SOREMARTEC S.A. (Senningerberg, Luxembourg).

"Method for making a closure for a container" was invented by Luca Zuliani (Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for making a closure for closing a container, the closure including a closure body made of paper and an inner sealing element attached to the closure body, the method includes the following steps: providing a sheet material including at least a paper layer and a sealing layer; removing an excess portion of the sealing layer from the sheet material so that the remaining portion of the sealing layer forms the inner sealing element ...