ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,378, issued on March 3, was assigned to U-CONSULTING GmbH (Wolfertschwenden, Germany).

"Protective device, protective arrangement for a container and method for connecting a protective device to a container" was invented by Gunter Untch (Badenweiler, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a protective device (14) for a container (12) for receiving substances, in particular pulverulent substances, wherein the protective device (14) has a flexible casing (32), which encloses a casing space (38) and comprises a first casing opening (34), and a first tubular body (40) which is connected to the casing (32)...