US Patent Issued to AptarGroup on April 8 for "Dispensing closure" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,652, issued on April 8, was assigned to AptarGroup Inc. (Crystal Lake, Ill.).

"Dispensing closure" was invented by Nicholas Jelich (Oconomowoc, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispensing closure (40) for a fluent substance-containing system, such as a container, includes a body (54) for receiving the fluent substance from the system, a locking member (56) assembled with the body (54), and a pivotable actuator (60) assembled with the locking member (56) and defining a dispensing flow passage (190) for discharging the fluent substance. The locking member (56) is rotatable relative to the body (54) from a locking position to an un...