ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,337, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & Co. KG (Hard, Austria).
"Container closure" was invented by Franz-Michael Lasser (Lochau, Austria), Werner Steurer (Doren, Austria), Erwin Mayer (Eisgarn, Austria) and Peter Winghart (Oberstadion, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closure cap for closing the pouring opening of a container, has a cylindrical threaded part with an open edge and an inner thread to interact with an outer thread of a container neck of the container, a security ring held on a protrusion on the container neck, a plurality of security webs releasably connecting the security ring t...