ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,201, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ball Corp. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Aluminum impact extruded bottle with threaded neck made from recycled aluminum and enhanced alloys" was invented by John L. Siles (Westminster, Colo.), Matthias K. van de Liefvoort (Louisville, Colo.) and Kevin Reed Jentzsch (Woodland Hills, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to forming a threaded neck in a metal bottle manufactured by a process known as impact extrusion. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods, apparatus and alloy compositions used in the impact extrusion manufacturing of containers ...