ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,987, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to APOLLO INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (Siheung-si, South Korea).

"Automatically-chargeable spout type cosmetics container" was invented by Kyung Sook Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Seung Min Lee (Busan, South Korea) and Dae Sik Seo (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an automatically-chargeable spout type cosmetics container. The automatically-chargeable spout type cosmetics container allows air present in a pusher to be introduced into a spout tube or allows ambient air to be introduced into the pusher, but prevents a cosmetics liquid from being introdu...