ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,947, issued on Jan. 28.

"Two-piece child resistant container lid with push-release latch arrangement" was invented by Tobin Remenda (Westerose, Canada) and Catherine Anne-Marie Deslauriers (Westerose, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A child resistant lid features first and second lid components for covering respective fractions of a container opening. One or more latch arrangements releasably latch the components together in a closed state over the container opening, and each feature a latch hole defined in one of the components, and a latch tongue affixed to the other component. The tongue is sized and oriented to reach a posi...