US Patent Issued to VESTERGAARD SARL on April 14 for "Water container with manual dispensing valve" (French, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,616, issued on April 14, was assigned to VESTERGAARD SARL (Switzerland).

"Water container with manual dispensing valve" was invented by Mikkel Vestergaard-Frandsen (Tiburon, Calif.), Alison Hill (Reisterstown, Md.), Jean-Luc Madier (Divonne les Bains, France), Mathieu Corbineau (Bern, Switzerland), Lionel Sabourin (St Baldoph, France) and Jean-Marc Pascal (Voreppe, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a water dispenser including a container with an outlet channel at the bottom thereof and a manually operated valve arrangement with a valve member resiliently pre-stressed towards a closing state."

The patent was filed o...