US Patent Issued to Aesculap on Oct. 28 for "Container closure" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,613, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Container closure" was invented by Stefan Thomas (Tuttlingen, Germany), Andreas Elisch (Dunningen, Germany) and Karl-Heinz Eiskant (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closing/locking mechanism for a sterile container includes an actuation lever, a tension bow or claw coupled to the actuation lever, and an engagement element forming an undercut and with which the tension bow or claw can be brought into operative engagement to apply a tensile force to the engagement element. The tension bow or claw is mounted for sliding transversely to the te...