ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,010, issued on May 13, was assigned to ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & Co. KG (Hard, Austria).
"Container closure" was invented by Matthias Dangl (Waidhofen an der Thaya, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plastic container closure has a screw cap with a cylindrical casing having an internal screw thread and a lid disc adjoining the casing, a security ring connected by first break-off webs to a free edge of the casing and a holding ring in the region of the container neck. The security ring has slots distributed over its circumference and each have a top edge and a bottom edge, wherein the top edge is formed by a section of the...