ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,009, issued on May 13, was assigned to Aptar Freyung GmbH (Freyung, Germany).

"Bottom dispensing package" was invented by Franz Lenz (Hinterschmiding, Germany) and Daniel Frey (Grainet, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention refers to a bottom dispensing package for a flowable composition, comprising a squeezable container for housing the flowable composition, a base element that is fixed to the container, whereby the base element comprises an orifice, whereby the orifice is placed in the direction of gravity beneath the container when the dispensing package is placed in its head-stand position on the base element, wher...