US Patent Issued to BERICAP HOLDING on Feb. 25 for "Container closure having a hinge and a grip projection" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,061, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to BERICAP HOLDING GMBH (Budenheim, Germany).

"Container closure having a hinge and a grip projection" was invented by Gunter Krautkramer (Budenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container closure including a retaining ring which extends around a reference axis of the container closure, a cap part and a hinge which connects the retaining ring to the cap part. The cap part has an end plate, an enclosing circumferential wall and a grip projection which extends radially outward from the circumferential wall, axially with a distance to the end plate. A deformable region of the circumferent...