US Patent Issued to AMCOR RIGID PACKAGING USA on Oct. 28 for "Lightweight polymeric container finish" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,384, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AMCOR RIGID PACKAGING USA LLC (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Lightweight polymeric container finish" was invented by Jonathan P. Jarman (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Luke A. Mast (Brooklyn, Mich.), Ivan F. Harris (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Bradley S. Philip (Tecumseh, Mich.), Myles Graybill (South Lyon, Mich.), Richard J. Steih (Jackson, Mich.) and Kevin Gaydosh (Adrian, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymeric container including a base, a body, a finish, finish threads, and a tamper lip. The finish threads are at an outer surface of the finish, and are configured to cooperate with closure threads of a closure t...