ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,189, issued on March 25.
"Child resistant package" was invented by Henricus Johannes Petrus Somers (Valkenswaard, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A child resistant package comprising a child-resistant packaging containing there within a solid food item comprising a medicine, wherein the packaging has the shape of a box. The packaging is provided with a perforation and the solid food item is provided with a 'void', such as a recess, cut, indentation or hole. The perforation defines a portion of the packaging that is separated at least in part from the remainder of the packaging when the perforation is pierced/punched. The ...