ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,365, issued on March 3, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).
"Solvent tube management" was invented by James E. Usowicz (Webster, Mass.) and Stanislaw Koziol (Wrentham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bottle cap includes a lower cap body that is threaded for attachment about an opening in a solvent bottle and an upper cap body attached to the lower cap body. A liner disposed inside the lower cap body includes at least one opening to pass a solvent tube while limiting evaporation of the solvent in the bottle. Features in the upper cap body permit identification flags to be attached. Each flag has an openi...