US Patent Issued to AptarGroup on June 24 for "Closure for a container and components for a closure" (Wisconsin, North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,036, issued on June 24, was assigned to AptarGroup Inc. (Crystal Lake, Ill.).

"Closure for a container and components for a closure" was invented by Christopher Ryan Branca (Charlotte, S.C.), Timothy Michael Mazurkiewicz (Waukesha, Wis.), Stacy Bielke (Eagle, Wis.), John Wisniewski (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Pranav Bhatt (Mooresville, N.C.) and Chad Ryan Billsby (Sussex, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closing element for restricting communication of a substance through an access passage of a body includes a first portion for being removably affixed to the body, the first portion having an inner wall, an outer wall surrounding the inne...