ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,612, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to APTAR FRANCE SAS (Le Neubourg, France).

"Device for dispensing a fluid product" was invented by Thomas Gomez (Lyons, France), Philippe Le Faou (Ecully, France), Khaoula Mghimimi (Ecully, France) and Ege Tekce (Francheville, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid product dispensing device having a reservoir with a dose of fluid product, a piston-stopper mounted to slide in the reservoir, a dispensing head with a dispensing orifice axially movable to move the piston-stopper to dispense the fluid product. The piston-stopper has a hollow sleeve with a central receiving zone substantially at ...